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Solar Power Concentrator that concentrates sunlight 900 times to produce 1,500 watts of power
Imagine a machine that can concentrate sunlight 900 times and direct a precisely controlled, white-hot beam at a nearby target.
A solar death ray?
No, far from it.
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It’s a 1.5 kilowatt power plant. And two poeople can assemble it in half a day without a crane or other special tools. Plus, it generates prodigious amounts of usable heat as well as electricity.
Standing 18 feet high with “wings” spanning 13 feet, the generator is small enough to tuck into some backyards or plant 90 to an acre in a kind of high-tech orchard farm.
16Nov2008 | ecofriendly | 5 comments | Continued