Inexpensive Magnifying Glasses for Solar Panels

There are many ways that have been developed for concentrating and intensifying light on solar panels. A new inexpensive technology could significantly ramp up the efficiency of traditional solar panels.

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"The next frontier in traditional solar panels is concentrators - devices, usually lenses, that concentrate solar power onto the most expensive part of a solar panel - the silicon. Skyline Solar's "solar trough" design concentrates sunlight without using expensive lenses or complicated robotic armatures for tracking the sun as it crosses the sky. The entire system is built from commodity parts in an effort to make it cheap and scalable – the ultimate goal being 'grid parity,' or a system that is competitive with fossil fuels as a means of generating electricity." See full article.