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But parabolic mirrors are much more expensive to make than spherical mirrors.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Thus, parabolic mirrors are featured in many low-cost, energy efficient solar products, such as solar cookers, solar heaters, and even travel-sized fire starters.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
A 75m line of motorised parabolic mirrors that follow the sun all day focuses its heat on a pipe containing a sealed-in supply of oil.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2012
This compares with a maximum of 28% by standard silicon-based solar cells that have not had the incident light concentrated by parabolic mirrors, and 31% by those that have—a significant enhancement.
From Economist ● Dec. 28, 2011
The powerful combined electric current, hissing into the big carbons, and being reflected by the parabolic mirrors, made the growth of underbrush as brightly illuminated as in day time.
From Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
