With help from his father and after many mistakes Aidan ended up with two models: a traditional flat-panel array and a tree-shaped solar collector designed to mimic the branch sequence of an oak tree.

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The bracelet may have two parts, a touch sensitive flexible display and a solar power collector.

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Put a solar cell at the focus of that mirror and you have an inexpensive solar-energy collector.

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Genesis had painstakingly deployed the collector tiles and foil over the last two years to capture atoms from the solar wind.

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An IBM-led group is working on a new collector dish that could avoid that damage while taking a big step forward in solar power efficiency.

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As we orbited the sun, we exposed the back side of the collector to stardust, interstellar grains, that are actually coming in to our solar system at the present time.

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