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Published online 20 August 2008 | Nature 454, 929 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454929d
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Plans for the largest ever solar-power plants
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my name is daniel , i pop in from time to time , to look at these so interesting things, and this is somthing i feel i realy must comment on. i see it will be another solar farm, yet i have been thinking about such a project for a long time , around two years. you see , the solar farms of the day are good in there way , but , i feel lacking in inoovation. and like a proper idea, innovative to sciance , my farm would be situated , wait for it , under ground, under two phase parabolics , charging uv lights , in a very deep circular pit, like a pole hole in the ground , as big as you could make it wide, . and in every good sciance project , comes a doom theorist , as i am of both ,read on, you see , these lights would be focusd toward and through phases of solar paneling, to a core centre, focused through layers of lenses and solar paneling , . now for the doomed reasoning. because though the sun may always shine , the migrating storm fronts of the global warming phenomenom, will bring with them winds which will damage the farms of the now , possibly putting out of commission some if not a whole farm. so to place it under ground with lenses which can be tilted to the best effect, under one big lense, would be the safest and most economical production. then with expansion further pits like sized could be focussed from the main lenses, and so on and so forth. take a look at the solar calculator under a bulb, and you may see why i came to this idea. that and the weather forcast. daniel scott jordan.