Introducing The Most Efficient Solar Power In The World

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From Discovery Magazine:

It's taken 25 years, but a new solar-thermal plant in New Mexico has finally broken the old efficiency record.

In 1986 solar panels were literally ripped from the White House roof. But political will and financial incentives have reignited the search for efficient, affordable ways to harness the sun’s energy. Two new solar thermal technologies—which focus sunlight to create heat rather than convert it directly to electricity, as photovoltaics do—promise to make solar power practical at vastly different scales.

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