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[Matt Tritt]

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I was wondering how many of you have seen the latest Wired magazine with 
the article on the "revolutionary" PV toy being hyped by Bill Gross (a 
former successful dot comer) and his company, Energy Innovations. 
Basically, the "Sunflower" is a mini solar plant with dual-axis 
concentrating mirrors that focus on a small PV module mounted on a pole. 
The article claims efficiencies of >20%, but the unit is 25 square feet 
of mirrors feeding a single module of what appears to be a 3 sq. ft. 
collector; all this for a claimed one kW output per solar day (in LA). 
Wow. When you can do the same or better from a single 165 Watt PV 
module, why bother?

Check it out  www.wired.com   and look for archived article 13.07

Matt T

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