From The Crestone Eagle October 1993 Issue
Now that Winter is soon upon us, leaves are turning, and high electric bills will soon be here, I think back to August when PVs blossomed in the town park at the Energy Fair. But, wait a minute. PVs? Oh, yes. Photovoltaics, from the Greek photos (light) and the Italian Alessandro Volta, (1745-1827), who first named the electromotive force. These magic things that give juice purely from the light are generally called solar electric panels by their marketeer, and solar cells by the R&D scientific crowd. The best simple explanation is in the intro to the 1992 Designer’s Guide from Alternative Energy Engineering: “The solar cell is a two layered silicon semi-conductor device.”

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