World’s Most Efficient Solar Dish?



A team led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology students last week successfully tested a prototype of what it says may be the “most cost-efficient solar-power system in the world,” revolutionizing global energy production.

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The 12-foot-wide dish, made of a lightweight frame of thin aluminum tubing and mirror strips, concentrates sunlight by a factor of 1,000, according to the Cambridge, Mass., university. It can create heat intense enough to melt a bar of steel.

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