ABSTRACT
Do you know that if solar cells, which convert light directly to electricity, had not existed, the GPS navigation system used worldwide would not have existed either?Most people do not know and only a few people remember how the terrestrial utilization of solar electricity advanced in 40 years from a scientific curiosity to replace nuclear electricity. This book is dedicated to those people who achieved this and to tell the story how difficult it was to achieve it.The age of electricity started during the middle of the nineteenth century and by now in the twenty-first century our life and the quality of our life is unimaginable without the use of electricity. In order to satisfy our appetite for electricity, we are drilling holes miles deep under the surface of the oceans, fracturing stones in the crust of the Earth, and transporting fuel in huge ships and pipelines from one side of the Earth to the other to operate machinery to produce electricity.
