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IBM Solar Concentrator Can Produce12kW/day, Clean Water, and AC
Lucas123 writes IBM Research and Switzerland-based Airlight Energy today announced a parabolic dish that increases the sun's radiation by 2,000 times while also producing fresh water and air conditioning. The new Concentrator PhotoVoltaics (CPV) system uses a dense array of water-cooled solar chips that can convert 80% of the sun's radiation into useful energy. The CPV, which looks like a 33-foot-high sunflower, can generate 12 kilowatts of electrical power and 20 kilowatts of heat on a sunny day — enough to power several average homes, according to Bruno Michel, the project's lead scientists at IBM Research in Switzerland.
Yeah, I want these fucking things all over my neighborhood. I swear to god if these start sprouting up like toadstools I'm going to start using them for sighting in the .22. I can't understand what the heck people are thinking sometimes.
Make a habit of this and you will get free a place to stay which features
"Three hots and a cot".
In other words you will go to prison, which frankly is where you belong
if you really believe that shooting the property of others is acceptable
behavior.
It's understandable that you can't understand what people are thinking because it
is plainly obvious that YOU don't think at all.
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