I came accross this interesting article on “How mirrors can light up the world“. This is a worthy read on a energy generating technique that hopefully will be popularized soon, as it is environmentally friendly and cheap and has the potential to provide the whole world with energy.
This technique is simple and is being used in the Mojave dessert in California. It involves placing huge mirrors in the dessert (how simple is that?) in order to exploit all the solar energy we get everyday. It can also run at night by the hot water accomulated at the plants during day time.
I also found it quite amusing that supposedly, African countries that have always had the desert messing up their land, are now “blessed with hot, sunny deserts”. If any native from those countries from a thousand years back read this, they would surely die from laughter in disbelief that their unfertile land is a blessing. How things change, eh?
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on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 6:50 am and is filed under Science.
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