“Harnessing The Sun” – excerpts from a 1963 book from the USSR on solar’s potential

I was looking through an old bookshelf today and found this wonderful book from 1963, published in English by the USSR!

I thought folks here in r/energy would enjoy some of these sentiments in the pages as much as I did.

“Man has so far been unable to utilise solar radiation without the intermediary vegetable metamorphosis. Still, tapping the Sun’s rays and making them work has always been his fondest dream.”

“A small photocell will do wonders on the roof of a house in sun-steeped areas.”

“The word heliofication will probably come to be just as common as electrification is today.”