You’d need to be at least forty or have a taste for 1980s Norwegian pop music to get that terrible pun, but for someone who grew up in the ‘80s when solar energy was still in its infancy and Britain’s coal industry was being decimated, it’s wonderful to see that investment in Solar technology continues and the possibility to become fossil fuel free could soon be realized.
It may sound bizarre but it’s true. Going back to the earliest days of metalworking, circa 3500 years ago, some ‘bright spark’ established a process for fusing the surface of two elements to form a single unit and welding was born!
“Out of the spent and unconsidered earth the cities rise again.” Rudyard Kipling
The Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s motto “Let There Be Light” was inscribed over the entrance of the 2500 libraries which were built worldwide in the early 1900s with the money he donated. Carnegie believed in giving to the "industrious and ambitious; not those who need everything done for them, but those who deserve and will be benefited by help from others."