Popular Science teamed up with Google to archive images of all past issues. Some of this stuff is pretty classic..very fun to browse through old mags. I saw an article from 1981 about a house in Massachusetts that installed a 7.5 Kw PV system on their house. It was going to supply all the energy they needed. The problem was that it cost $75, 000 and I doubt there were any tax incentives at that time. A quote of the article "economic justification is not even remotely possible"..wow we've come a long way. Thank god for early adopters though!
You can read the archived issue here: http://bit.ly/95I9xi
You have to scroll through the old ads, very amusing. I was especially surprised at the number of cigarette ads in there..yes the Marlborough Man shows up (check out the Camel Man too on page 26)...have fun.
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