{"id":386589,"date":"2025-07-03T09:41:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=386589"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T07:41:48","slug":"the-first-solar-power-plant-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=386589","title":{"rendered":"The First Solar Power Plant: 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"378\" data-attachment-id=\"386594\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=386594\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,628\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0,Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant.jpg?fit=723%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant.jpg?resize=723%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-386594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant.jpg?resize=1024%2C536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0Frank-Schumann-built-the-world39s-first-solar-power-plant.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/solar-power-history\/first-solar-grid-plant-1916\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Robert Bradley Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have proved the commercial profit of sun power in the tropics and have more particularly proved that after our stores of oil and coal are exhausted the human race can receive unlimited power from the rays of the sun.\u201d \u2013 \u200aFrank Shuman, quoted in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/timesmachine.nytimes.com\/timesmachine\/1916\/07\/02\/104680095.pdf\">American Inventor Uses Egypt\u2019s Sun for Power<\/a>,\u201d&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>, July 2, 1916.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solar electricity is not an infant industry. The following&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Shuman\">Wiki<\/a>&nbsp;information (verbatim) on the inventor Frank Shuman tells an important part of the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On August 20, 1897, Shuman invented a solar engine that worked by reflecting solar energy onto one-foot square boxes filled with ether, which has a lower boiling point than water, and containing black pipes on the inside, which in turn powered a toy steam engine. The tiny steam engine operated continuously for over two years on sunny days next to a pond at the Shuman house.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1908 Shuman formed the Sun Shine Power Company with the intent to build larger power plants. He, along with his technical advisor A.S.E. Ackermann and British physicist Sir\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Vernon_Boys\">Charles Vernon Boys<\/a>,\u00a0developed an improved system using mirrors to reflect solar energy upon collector boxes, increasing heating capacity so much that water could now be used instead of ether.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>He also developed a low-pressure steam turbine [with] \u2026 sun-heated water. Shuman\u2019s turbine processed energy four times faster than any engine of his day. Shuman then constructed a full-scale steam engine that was powered by low-pressure steam, enabling him to patent the entire solar engine system by 1912.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shuman built the world\u2019s first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Solar_thermal_energy\">solar thermal<\/a>\u00a0power station in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maadi\">Maadi<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Egypt\">Egypt<\/a>\u00a0(1912-1913). Shuman\u2019s plant used semicircle shaped troughs to power a 60-70 horsepower engine that pumped 6,000 gallons of water per minute from the Nile River to adjacent cotton fields. His system included a number of technological improvements, including absorption plates with dual panes separated by a one-inch air space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Although the outbreak of World War I and the discovery of cheap oil in the 1930s discouraged the advancement of solar energy, Shuman\u2019s vision and basic design were resurrected in the 1970s with a new wave of interest in solar thermal energy.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frank_Shuman#cite_note-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"432\" height=\"599\" data-attachment-id=\"386592\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=386592\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-49.png?fit=432%2C599&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"432,599\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-49.png?fit=432%2C599&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-49.png?resize=432%2C599&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-386592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-49.png?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-49.png?resize=216%2C300&amp;ssl=1 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fallacious Argument<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solar electricity in modern life is strictly a niche industry. It is not grid competitive but has off-grid applications, such as in decades past. It is a starter energy where propane and other dense energies are not available. The \u2018infant industry\u201d argument is not persuasive; entrepreneurs have been trying to fit in concentrated solar for well over a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This completes a three-part series on solar energy, the first being on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/solar-power-issues\/solar-tax-credits-1978-2025\/\">the history of solar tax credits<\/a>&nbsp;and the second being on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/new-york-times\/competitive-solar-perennial-deceit\/\">the (false) 1994 claim of solar competitiveness<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have proved the commercial profit of sun power in the tropics and have more particularly proved that after our stores of oil and coal are exhausted the human race can receive unlimited power from the rays of the sun.\u201d \u2013 \u200aFrank Shuman, quoted in \u201cAmerican Inventor Uses Egypt\u2019s Sun for Power,\u201d New York Times, July 2, 1916.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":386596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691836293,691836291,691836289,691819233,691836292,691836290],"class_list":["post-386589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-discovery-of-cheap-oil","tag-shumans-plant","tag-solar-electricity","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-thermal-power-station","tag-sun-shine-power-company","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0AQNHKOeyeCJKBBhxtNp7ZYYXeAgTktpsPzIqsH4H-wcRBuEZ6oGGtpt9-5Ic1hhTeI8emmEgpeX1JHvzjf9Nn69otZlaqjTs_7OsFUrp0ohcA6U-EC9LiKcyJg5qLtMzOksv30wHPZwAYb11-QdSJTFshS7Oww-1.jpeg?fit=1280%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Czj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":253638,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=253638","url_meta":{"origin":386589,"position":0},"title":"Solar Optimism and Coal Alarmism a Century Ago","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"04\/19\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Energy history brings perspective and caution to the real-world prospects of dilute, intermittent energies becoming 21st century mainstays. 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