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In this story, there are unusual events taking place on Mercury, right where energy is gathered for use throughout the solar system. It begins with an enormous photocell on Mercury, which is pretty much the best place to stand on solid ground while collecting free solar power.
Was there another way to get that concentrated power to the outer planets?
A far cry from the day when the plant charged monstrous banks of converters to be carted to the outer worlds by lumbering spaceships. Compare to the power planet from Power Planet (1931) by Murray Leinster, the near-space solar energy collector from Star Maker (1937) by Olaf Stapledon, the solar station switch room from Doom Over Venus (1940) by Edmond Hamilton, the solar station from Isaac Asmov's 1941 story Reason and the solar beam from The Long Way (1944) by George O. Smith. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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