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The Man Who Bottled Sunlight

In 1913, engineer Charles F. Brush built an off-grid estate powered entirely by his own wind and solar energy systems. He harnessed sunlight to store energy in 12, early-1900s storage batteries, effectively creating one of the world’s first successful solar power systems at his home in Cleveland. Brush's ingenuity predated mainstream renewable energy by almost a century.
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