Sentence examples for arrays of mirrors from inspiring English sources

Its designs call for so-called power towers in which arrays of mirrors focus sunlight onto elevated towers.

Big arrays of mirrors that concentrate sunlight to run turbines, which first emerged in the early 1980s, are resurgent in sun-baked places like the American Southwest, Spain and Australia.

One big challenge, says Philip Gleckman, chief technology officer of Areva Solar, is that the arrays of mirrors, as well as the motors and gearboxes used to aim them at the sun, are expensive.

The space these arrays occupy could often be used for other purposes.Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now devised a better and more compact way of laying out arrays of mirrors.

The government-owned land offered affordable, wide-open spaces and the abundant sunshine needed by solar thermal plants, which use huge arrays of mirrors to heat liquids to create steam that drives electricity-generating turbines.

The largest utility in California, squeezed by rising demand for electricity and looming state deadlines to curb fossil fuels, has signed a deal to buy solar power from seven immense arrays of mirrors, towers and turbines to be installed in the Mojave Desert.

Our prototype implementation uses a video projector, a camera, and an array of mirrors.

Our prototype acquisition system consists of an array of mirrors and a pair of coaxial projector and camera.

The project would use an array of mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays on a boiler.

An array of mirrors would create a beam of solar energy visible to anyone who walks under the structure.

At night in a new moon, the flash can be imaged by a 30-foot array of mirrors at the observatory.