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Similar today, there's an oil crisis in October 1973, and all of a sudden energy goes from something that's abundant and cheap to something that's, um, very scarce and expensive and difficult.

And so a, a lot of resources go into energy in that period, some of which goes into advanced technologies, and some of that goes into solar.

And so there's a real effort on solar research and development starting in 1974 in the US and in other countries too.

One of the most important things that that does is it trains hundreds of people into the solar industry.

So it, it really starts to become a real industry because you bring all this capability and talent that's coming from the electronics industry and the space industry, uh, into solar.

And so that creates a lot of potential.

Is there a future where households don't just consume energy, they produce it? Or as Greg Nemet puts it, what if we became prosumers?