Harnessing sunlight on the cheap

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MIT students work on a new kind of solar generator that employs low-cost materials. Here they mount the frame of the concentrator (which will be mounted with mirrors) on the base near Tang Hall on Memorial Drive. Photo Donna Coveney
MIT students work on a new kind of solar generator that employs low-cost materials. Here they mount the frame of the concentrator (which will be mounted with mirrors) on the base near Tang Hall on Memorial Drive. Photo / Donna Coveney

For a project that could be on the very cutting edge of renewable energy, this one is actually decidedly low tech--and that's the point.


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