Early solar advocates’ humanitarian arguments failed to attract corporate or state backing

Evidence

But the argument was a dead end. The nation’s corporate giants were not tempted by the possibility of an export market for solar collectors, and the nation’s political leaders had no interest in developing new technology as a form of foreign aid. — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 226

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early solar advocates framed efficiency as saving resources, not reducing pollution — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 215; Funding withdrawal doomed mass-market solar heating by the early 1960s — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 229; Solar energy drew serious institutional support as early as the mid-1950s — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 223 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Solar energy drew serious institutional support as early as the mid-1950s #contradicts (0.80) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 223
• Prior scholarship missed the political speculation of agrarian Populists in bucket-shop conflicts #qualifies (0.70)