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Use several mirrors to reflect the sunlight into one spot, then you will have concentrated heat on that spot.
Have 600 mirrors (actually they are 624 heliostats [1]), put them on the field to concentrate the sunlight, and you have enough heat to generate 11 MW of electricity, able to power up to 6,000 homes.
What a wonderful idea 
. A clean energy, and although by now it costs 3 times as much compared to conventional sources, as technology develop, for sure it will get cheaper and cheaper.
The original story is from BBC: “Power station harnesses Sun’s rays,” where I also (without permission) grabbed the picture above .
A little bit of googling here and there, I found this presentation [PDF, 1.59 Mb] by Dr. Manuel Romero on Solair European Consortium very interesting.
[1] May 02, 2007 - Making Electricity with Mirrors and the Sun
Update - May 27th: A more comprehensive blog entry, complete with a clip from the BBC News can be found here.
Last modification was on Sunday, 27 May 2007 at 12:49 am
