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The history of renewable energy

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The world’s first known solar collector, a device that collects solar radiation, was invented in 1767 and later used to cook food. Department of Energy (DOE). In 1904, an Italian prince, Piero Conti, powered light bulbs through a geothermal power experiment that harnessed steam from Tuscany’s Larderello geothermal field.

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