IBM solar Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:23:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Sunflower Shaped Concentrator to Banish Fossil Fuel Zombies https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunflower-shaped-concentrator-banish-fossil-fuel-zombies-20141109/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunflower-shaped-concentrator-banish-fossil-fuel-zombies-20141109/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:23:55 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50106 Like a giant 10 meter (32.8 foot) sunflower, a new kind of solar concentrator developed by IBM Research together with Swiss-based solar supplier, Airlight Energy, promises to make the most of the sun.  The High Concentration PhotoVoltaic Thermal (HCPVT) system concentrates the power of the sun 2,000 times and aims it all at a solar […]

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