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DIMONA, ISRAEL -- On the scorched floor of Israel's Negev Desert blooms a field of 1,640 robotic mirrors that behave like sunflowers.
Slightly larger than pingpong tables and guided by a computer, they turn imperceptibly to follow the sun and focus its rays on the pinnacle of a 200-foot tower, where a water boiler will soon start producing high-pressure steam.
This futuristic assembly is Arnold Goldman's scale model and testing ground for five larger solar fields his company plans to build in the Mojave Desert to supply up to 900 megawatts of clean energy to California in the next decade.
Maybe you can use solar power.
Originally posted by Desert Dawg
And the rest of the folks on the flatlands will keep on paying the usual electric bills which can be quite high in summer and winter with a bit of relief in spring and fall.
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by Zepherian
That could empower the middle class but what about the lower classes?
Originally posted by ArMaP
Solar panels are not powerful enough to supply a house (I think) but there are other ways of using solar power.
Originally posted by Animal
Originally posted by ArMaP
Solar panels are not powerful enough to supply a house (I think) but there are other ways of using solar power.
Not to flame you, but this statement is 150% false. I assure you solar panels can supply a house.
Originally posted by sir_chancealot
My nephew lives in a house that is totally off the grid. He uses two 4'x8' solar panels (approximately, I've never taken the tape measure to them.) During the day, he says he makes way more electricity than he could ever use.
Interestingly enough, he says on overcast days, he makes more electricity than on totally clear days.