Cob: Baked Houses

[louis]

I should've qualified that a bit.  It's called Solar One--it has a field of
mirrors that are focused on a central tower.  It's a highly-capitalized
research project.  The tower circulates a fluid that's heated like a
boiler, to turn turbines to produce electricity.  The focal point gets to
thousands of degrees--it could be used to fuse bricks.  It just happens to
be about 25 miles from where Khalili is.  It might not be so practical for
hand-to-mouth alternative builders. 

--Louis


Yes, Rosemary Lyndall Wemm. You wrote:
>Tell me more about the solar collector.  How does it work?
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> Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM,