Step 5: Switch on the Sun Lamp

Cheaper, more efficient materials can send solar soaring
By Tom Clynes Posted 07.03.2006 at 2:00 am 0 Comments
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Early next year, dozens of huge, concave mirrors will begin to sprout on a desert farm northeast of Los Angeles. Each 37-foot-diameter Stirling dish will electronically track the sun and reflect its rays onto a heat collector, where the concentrated sunlight will superheat hydrogen to 1,300

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