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Quite a bit of exaggeration and wishful thinking went into that, worthy of something you'd find in the magazine "popular science"*

Quote:
World's largest solar thermal plant starts generating energy by using more than 300,000 mirrors to reflect sunlight in California
AND USING THE SAME OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY THAT WAS DEEMED TOO INEFFICIENT TO WASTE TIME AND MONEY ON BACK IN 1982!

WOO HOO!



* popular science (fiction) magazine is an inside joke at my house.
My son gets a new subscription every year for Christmas from a well-intentioned relative.
Every month we read it and laugh at the absurdness and inaccuracy of the articles.

They specialize in using the words "could" and "might" and "someday" to qualify statements they've already presented as fact. Much like that article.
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