Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by canofbars 1998 days ago
Nothing is wrong with it. Here it is in action here powering a tomato plantation in the middle of the Australian desert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms#/media/File:1604...

Interesting fact is these are not PV solar panels but simple mirrors redirecting the suns energy at one point.

1 comments

down sides beginning you need to keep the mirrors cleaner than you do solar panels. Bird's that fly though the focused beam die. the sun has to be tracked, though I don't know if that's any different from a normal panel farm tracking the sun.