MIT Makes Inexpensive Solar Dish

Tag : Solar Panels

A team of MIT students has successfully tested a prototype solardish by lighting a plank of wood on fire. The system is a 12 ft.wide mirrored dish made of thin, inexpensive aluminum tubing andstrips of mirror. It concentrates sun rays by a factor of 1,000,enough heat to melt a steel bar. Because water in the tubing turnsto steam, the team is hoping that could revolutionize energyproduction as we know it. We think it’s great and wouldcertainly opt for solar panels over building more nuclear powerplants, as was recently suggested by a certain presidentialcontender.


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