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  • Devices for capturing the sun’s energy over a large area and focussing it on a small area, thereby concentrating it. In this way it can be made to provide extremely high temperatures, used to generate steam that will expand, or to carry out a chemical reaction to produce a portable fuel such as hydrogen. (en)

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