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The World's Largest Solar Plant Started Creating Electricity Today
Take 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors, each 7 feet high and 10 feet wide. Control them with computers to focus the Sun's light to the top of 459-feet towers, where water is turned to steam to power turbines. Bingo: you have the world's biggest solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.
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That's pretty neat. I remember wondering what those were last year when driving to Vegas.
Well, now you know :)