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Looking for the best way to feed the world’s hunger for energy, James May visited a solar furnace to see how powerful they really are. Usually, solar furnaces are used to boil water into steam to ...

The Bill Gates-backed startup Heliogen has generated solar heat topping 1,000 degrees Celsius using mirrors. Concentrated solar power isn’t new, but high heat can be used to manufacture cement and ...

As the only undergraduate facility of its kind, The James S. Markiewicz Solar Energy Research Facility at Valparaiso University has already been offering something special to the 400 engineering ...

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