Specialized solar cells, known as multijunction photovoltaics, then turn that light into electricity, which can be supplied to the town's grid.
"ODE TO THE MAN WHO KNEELS" concerns a group of virile, battling balladeers and is set in a town called Grid, if you please.
In particular, the temples of the central terrace – including the world famous temple of Jupiter – were oriented in accordance with the town's grid, while a rigorous orientation to the cardinal points is evidenced for the Aesculapius sanctuary.
The health issues alone should have been enough, but the plants' stranglehold on the town's grid is a threat that we can no longer afford to ignore.
At the same time, ideas that were mainly theoretical 25 years ago – solar and wind technology, community energy projects that could take whole towns off-grid – have become demonstrably workable.
I head for the old town, a tiny grid of Georgian and Victorian streets.
Laird also laid out the nucleus of the town on a grid plan.
I stroll into the quiet town, just a grid of small interlocking alleys.
In 1824 William Laird founded the shipyards at Birkenhead and laid out the town on a grid pattern with Hamilton Square as the focus.
