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![]() Willy Shorts was sold twenty acres of desert - and was determined to make it liveable. But how to get electrical power?
In 1903, Isidoro Cabanyes, a colonel in the Spanish army, proposed the idea of a solar chimney power plant in the magazine La energía eléctrica.
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'... nothing was perfected until M. Pantalon announced the completion of his automatic valet.'
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'...its streets were of remarkable width, with few or no buildings so high as mosques, churches, State-offices, or palaces in Tellurian cities.'
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