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Thursday June 26, 2008 10:03 am
MIT Makes Inexpensive Solar Dish
A team of MIT students has successfully tested a prototype solar dish by lighting a plank of wood on fire. The system is a 12 ft. wide mirrored dish made of thin, inexpensive aluminum tubing and strips of mirror. It concentrates sun rays by a factor of 1,000, enough heat to melt a steel bar. Because water in the tubing turns to steam, the team is hoping that could revolutionize energy production as we know it. We think it’s great and would certainly opt for solar panels over building more nuclear power plants, as was recently suggested by a certain presidential contender.
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I really like this idea. I think it has a lot of potential to really help with our energy crunch. I hope to see something like this put into mass production and use in the near future.
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