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George Chakravarthi at the Site Gallery, Sheffield NORTHERN SPORT The sporting highlight of the week has been David Beckham's beautiful parabolic free kick into the top right corner of the Zalaegerszegi net at Old Trafford.
The GS CleanTech bioreactor uses a parabolic mirror to funnel sunlight into fibre-optic cables that carry the light to acrylic "glow plates" inside the reactor.
He says it is quite simple to find the instructions needed to build a parabolic or laser microphone on the internet.
This summer, if all goes to plan, the Federal Aviation Administration FAAA) will grant the first commercial licence to an aircraft that can take tourists on "parabolic flights" out of American cities.
A private ride on a parabolic Boeing 727 would cost $85,000.
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Not only did this get rid of the aberration, it made the telescope cheaper: a spherical mirror is easier to grind than a parabolic one.The Maksutov-Cassegrain design thus gave amateur astronomers a powerful instrument for a modest price that was compact enough to be carried anywhere.
Or they can rush to Zero Gravity Corporation, which for a mere $3,500 flies Boeing 727s in parabolic dives to give a taste of weightlessness.
Cassegrain telescopes which use a concave parabolic mirror in place of a primary lens and a convex hyperbolic secondary mirror to reflect the concentrated light from the primary back through a hole in the primary's centre have been around since the 1600s (they are named after Laurent Cassegrain, a French astronomer who came up with one of several competing designs).
Bill Gross, the chief executive of eSolar, a developer of "power tower" technology based in Pasadena, California, says his firm is using software to turn thousands of flat mirrors and shape them into a continuously evolving parabola around the tower.Storage and hybridsBoth power-tower and parabolic-trough systems can store thermal energy in the form of hot, molten salt.
Moreover, they can generate power off the grid, which turned out to be an important market for solar power in its early days.Now, as the solar-thermal industry is experiencing a revival, parabolic-trough projects are garnering much of today's investment money because of their proven track record.
