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6 Solar technologies to power the world

At last, solar energy is big enough and cheap enough to power electrical grids. Business 2.0 features the latest projects under the sun.

Solar trees
The Stirling dish is a 30-year-old technology that's just now becoming cost-effective thanks to big solar-power orders from utilities. In time, 70,000 of these "solar trees" planted in the Mojave Desert by Stirling Energy Systems of Phoenix could power a million homes.

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