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From: meier@Software.Mitel.COM (Rolf Meier)
Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: solar cells
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Date: 7 Jan 91 14:00:40 GMT
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In article <5173@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
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>Also, they have lots of electric motors moving those mirrors
>to track the Sun.  How much electricity?  I was told while I
>was there in the early 1980s that they FINALLY were producing
>more electricity than they were using.
>

What garbage.

If the mirrors are properly balanced, it would take miniscule amounts
of power to track the sun.

The mirrors are racing around at 1 revolution per day.

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Rolf Meier					Mitel Corporation