A technician uses a computer to monitor the temperature and status of the approximately 300 90-metre rows of collectors at a Luz International solar energy farm in the Mojave Desert,California. The collectors,computer-controlled parabolic mirrors,track the sun across the sky,focusing it's light onto tubes containing a synthetic oil. The oil,which is thus super- heated to 391 degrees Centigrade,is used to boil water for a steam turbine generator. In total eight Luz installations,covering 1000 acres of desert,generate 275 megawatts of electricity,90% of the world's total grid- connected solar energy production | |
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