The Energy Story - Chapter 15: Solar Energy - 0 views
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Solar energy can also be used to make electricity.
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solar power plants, like the one in the picture to the right in California's Mojave Desert, use a highly curved mirror called a parabolic trough to focus the sunlight on a pipe running down a central point above the curve of the mirror.
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mirror focuses the sunlight to strike the pipe
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