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Abu Dhabi Built the World's Largest Solar Power Plant with Oil and Mirrors

Concentrated solar power isn't like other solar power. These major, utility-scale projects typically use mirrors—either U-shaped parabolic troughs or flatter heliostats—to concentrate the sun's rays on a fluid instead of absorbing them. The Shams 1 uses some 258,000 mirrors in troughs, which track the Sun from east to west during the day so that the Sun is continuously being focused onto oil-filled pipes, which produce steam. Which turns a turbine. Which makes power.Read the rest over at the new Motherboard.VICE.com.