Who doesn't just love the idea of a giant solar panel on the roof to power the family junk-box, recharge the cell phones, or power up the old espresso maker? Trouble is these panels can be a little cost prohibitive for the average Joe. Well, worry not sun worshippers, "The Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Research Center" (catchy name) has come up with a fantastic solution for bringing even more solar energy to the power-hungry masses. It seems they can now build gigantic mirrors on vast areas of "unused land" that concentrates the sun's energy to dramatically magnify the amount of power produced from a given cell size. Cool. Projects like this are already on-the-grid in the U.S.A. and it seems this technology will be the basis for the world's largest solar generating plant yet. Really cool. Can't we all think of a patch of "unused land" nearby just crying out for a solar farm? Sorry, not available in Canada. For the time being anyway.
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