What has happened to the PV miracle since 1964?
What and where is the Livermore Lawrence Radiation Lab? If one grew up in Livermore, California, in the sixties, one knows the answer to those questions. Just about everyone in the surrounding subdivisions were scientists working at the LLRL. 1964 was when solar electrical energy started to become well known in Livermore. There was a Dr. Wells whose son attended Joe Mitchell junior high school. Dr. Wells was a scientist, but he was a very practical guy. He had the best looking wife of anybody in town. He built his own things, including an airplane, a two seater glider, and electronics stuff. He didn’t joke about physics like some of the other scientists, you know, like, “What would you get if you twisted an electron into the shape of a pretzel?” That kind of stuff. His son, Sandy, turned out quite a bit like him. Anyway one day in 1964, during the year we were in the seventh grade, Sandy comes up and asks to go in halves on a science fair project. So we said no we already had a project
