However, instead of using fossil fuels or nuclear power to create the steam, BrightSource uses sunlight, reflected by thousands
of small mirrors called heliostats onto a boiler filled with water that sits atop a tower.
The trick is to combine the light waves received by
each of the smaller mirrors so that the waves line up, creating an interference pattern — a bright spot where the peaks of the separate waves overlap, and darkness where the troughs overlap.
That said, I am thinking of doing a wall
of smaller mirrors.
Not exact matches
The first seriously wonderful authentic taco I found in New York City was in the back
of a Mexican market in Hell's Kitchen, a
small place and strangely decorated (
mirrored walls, tinsel, and a laser light disco ball) that had perfect al pastor and beef tongue.
But it's still too early to tell whether it'll
mirror the Nintendo Wii's early days in 2006, when people waited in line every weekend for the
small number
of consoles available.
Instead
of selling their own SLRs, which use a
mirror and prism mechanism to allow a scene to be viewed by the photographer and recorded on film, Panasonic, Olympus, and others started selling selling
smaller cameras that relied just on digital sensors.
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The results, which
mirror those
of similar,
small - scale studies
of the illegal drug in recent years, come as MDMA is about to enter larger, Phase 3 trials this summer.
Rather than hold an ETF, which
mirrors an index that can contain hundreds
of companies, a concentrated portfolio would hold only a
small number
of securities (sometimes as few as two or three).
The telecom and cable giants appear
smaller in the rear - view
mirror of Disney's $ 52 bln Fox deal.
The key to Calvin's vibrancy is linking desire for God with a homey simplicity that
mirrors both the great Christian tradition
of mystical experience and the
small - town sensibilities
of historic American Protestantism.
But sometimes I remember how ease was to belive in those fonny
small squared little
mirrors of the truth.
Because ours was a relatively
small congregation made up
of German immigrants who often shared my grandfather's story, I knew everyone in it and they knew me, Together we formed a community that tried — we did not succeed nearly enough — to
mirror in this life what God's love for everyone means practically.
While I'm not a huge fan
of jackfruit as it's not accessible to many, costly and the portions are
small, but when it comes to replicating meat focused recipes it
mirrors the texture and can take on whatever flavor you like, so using jackfruit for this concept was a no brainer!
Another advantage
of the one - way
mirror is that it makes the very
small space feel a little bigger.
Other, more minor changes include the introduction
of Nascar - style two - lane rolling starts at every race, the addition
of a series
of complex
mirrors and cameras to the Halo in order to make it appear invisible to the naked eye, and bonus points being awarded to the driver who can exceed the pit lane speed limit by the
smallest margin over the course
of the weekend.
materials
of different textures — ribbons, pom - poms, bubble wrap, fabric or felt, tin foil, feathers, straws, even a
small non-breakable
mirror
The Mini 9 comes with a
small mirror on the front
of the camera for the perfect selfie.
It is creating a natural environment full
of beauty and reflection:
small natural objects,
mirrors, light, wooden toys and quality experiences.
The
small piece
of plastic adheres to the
mirror and keeps the
mirrors from being able to be slid open.
Play gyms have
small baby proof
mirrors which promote self - discovery but only for babies between 3to 5 months
of age.
Mr Salmond argued an independent Scotland would
mirror the success
of small nations such as Norway and Iceland and would act in a «partnership
of equals» with England.
In some ways, the conversations taking place in Brooklyn over the next several months will
mirror those taking place on the Lower East Side
of Manhattan, where Mount Sinai Health System also wants to transform health care delivery, proposing to replace Beth Israel Medical Center with a much
smaller inpatient hospital as well as additional ambulatory care sites.
Schneiderman's evolution on ethics appears to
mirror that
of many good government groups who say recent indictments have forced them to the realization that Albany's corruption problem won't be cured with
small fixes.
The difference is astonishingly
small, just 1/10, 000
of a proton's diameter, but it can be detected if the
mirrors are isolated from all external sources
of vibration.
All you have to do is fill up the
small reservoir on the back
of the
mirror with some hot water and it will prevent it from fogging at any time during your shower, so you'll be ready to go.
Two large drawers under the tabletop move smoothly on sliding rails, while two
small drawers on either side
of the
mirror are felted on the top and bottom for quiet movement in and out.
There's even a
small dish at the front
of the
mirror that allows you to put your razor directly on it so you don't have a problem losing anything at all.
This
mirror is
small and lightweight but still gives you the right view and also folds back so that it's out
of the way when you don't need it.
When this type
of crystalline material is squeezed by a powerful shock, it can deform in two distinct ways: twinning, where
small regions develop lattice structures that are the
mirror images
of the ones in surrounding areas, and slip deformation, where a section
of the lattice shifts and the displacement spreads, like a propagating crack.
These new results
mirror those
of a
smaller 2017 study by a different team
of scientists.
Igel eventually wants to eliminate those drifts by putting
small motors behind each
of ROMY's
mirrors to make tiny adjustments to the rings in real time.
In this experiment, researchers anesthetize an animal and attach a
small red dot to the middle
of its forehead, where the dot will go unnoticed unless the animal can recognize itself in a
mirror.
Most CSP systems require significant amounts
of water, which has proven to be a challenge in desert regions
of the U.S. where solar power is most attractive, while Stirling engines require none other than
small amounts for cleaning the
mirrors.
To make lunar transport easier, each panel must be cut into four
smaller pieces, all the same shape (though some pieces can be
mirror images
of each other).
It was time for Padilla to go up to the top
of the tower to adjust the
mirror for the afternoon magnetogram observations, so he put on a hard hat and buckled himself into the «elevator,» as the
small open bucket is euphemistically called.
A dish - shaped collector on the roof bounces sunlight to a
smaller mirror, which concentrates the rays into a bundle
of fiber - optic cables.
Dubbed the Overwhelmingly Large (OWL) telescope, it would have a primary
mirror made
of some 2,000
smaller ones — each the size
of the Hubble.
The 3.5 - meter (137 - inch) WIYN on Kitt Peak near Tucson in Arizona is the newest
of 27 telescopes on the mountain and collects some
of the world's sharpest images, despite its relatively
small primary
mirror.
The resolution
of a big
mirror can be nearly duplicated by several
smaller mirrors separated by a distance equal to the diameter
of the big one.
Ruslan Belikov and Eduardo Bendek, two scientists at NASA Ames Research Center, have outlined innovative plans for a
small space telescope with a half - meter
mirror that could launch before the end
of the decade on a dedicated mission to obtain basic images
of any Alpha Centauri planets.
Since even the wavelength
of infrared light is so
small, a change
of millionths
of an inch is enough to cause the peaks and troughs
of light received by the
mirrors to fail to line up.
TPF will build on SIM's design concept
of combining the light from a line
of several
smaller mirrors so that the light waves add up or cancel out, providing the resolution
of one giant
mirror.
In one, the
mirror will consist
of seven thin glass segments, each with several hundred
small, spring - loaded screw adjusters attached to the back.
Astronomer Richard Ellis
of the California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena, who is a member
of the Board
of Directors for the TMT, says the E-ELT's
smaller mirror size will lead to a «quite significant loss» in its ability to study remote galaxies as well as directly image exoplanets.
If the amount is
smaller than expected based on the number
of positronium atoms that entered the chamber, then some
of it may be turning into
mirror matter.
But the finding also raises a physical problem: there's nothing to stop arbitrarily
small waves from fitting between two
mirrors, and there is an infinite number
of these wavelengths.
Such fast wide - field optics require a radically new design, involving three
mirrors: a
smaller secondary
mirror near the mouth
of the telescope and two highly curved
mirrors, the primary and tertiary, arranged concentrically at the back end.
Researchers have taken a step toward that goal by creating a
small mirror out
of tiny polystyrene particles, held together by lasers.
In an exciting extension
of this work — proposed by Roger Penrose, the renowned Oxford physicist — not just light but a
small mirror that reflects it becomes part
of an entangled quantum system, one that is billions
of times larger than a buckyball.