New Stirling Dishes (IMAGE)

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New Stirling Dishes

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Four newly designed solar power collection dishes called SunCatchers were unveiled last week at Sandia's National Solar Thermal Test Facility. The new dishes are the next-generation model of the original SunCatcher system. Designed for high-volume production, ease of maintenance and cost reductions, the dishes could be in commercial service by 2010.

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