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The Solar Tower
Just could not resist sharing this beautiful piece of engineering and a great source of renewable energy: Plataforma Solar de Almería Web Server, the European Test Centre for Solar Energy Applications. Reported widely in the media in early December, is this the shape of things to come?
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