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It could be argued that Ireland has played a part in the very early history and use of solar power.

The wonderful labyrinth of chambers and burial mounds at Newgrange in County Meath provides us with evidence of the genius of our forefathers of over 5,000 years ago at the Winter Solstice every 21 st December.

On that day as sunrise appears, the chamber are magically flooded with light in a method devised through a complex and extraordinary mathematical calculation that super computers could not create.

This incredible phenomenon remains one of the great natural scientific wonders of the world. Newgrange is visited by hundreds thousands of people every year to study knowledge that our ancestors had developed using light and heat.

In fact, conventional history research only records events using the power of the sun from about 700 B.C.

Perhaps we were ahead of our time in Ireland!