Solient solar concentrators

In its first iteration that'll be available later this year, the devices work like a series of slats that track the sun.

Lenses inside these lightweight trough-like panels direct light tohighly efficient solar cells, and the best news is that somehow theseSolient guys have figured out how to manufacture these suckers at aprice that's half as much as those old-timey solar panels we're usingtoday.

Source: technologyreview.comAdded: 29 May 2007