Take 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 - TopicsExpress



          

Take 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 feet wide. Control them with computers to focus the Suns light to the top of 459-foot towers, where water is turned into steam to power turbines. Bingo: you have the worlds biggest solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Long-mired by regulatory issues and legal tangles, the enormous solar plant–jointly owned by NRG Energy, BrightSource Energy and Google–opened for business today.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 23:12:53 +0000

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