As we're swiftly becoming an urban species, think what turning most of the world's travel ways into cheap solar energy collectors could mean. (huffingtonpost.com)
The reason the WTF star is famous is the hypothesis put forward to explain the dimming by Penn State astronomer Jason Wright: That what's orbiting the star could be a «swarm of megastructures,» alien - built energy collectors, much like terrestrial solar panels. (bigthink.com)
All solar thermal power systems have solar energy collectors with two main components: reflectors (mirrors) that capture and focus sunlight onto a receiver. (eia.gov)