Jed Rothwell wrote: > > I hate to use Wikipedia, but this photo shows damaged mirrors, which > indicate the limits of the technology (the lifetime of the installation): > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solarplant-050406-05.jpg Weird! What on Earth happened to them? It looks like somebody dropped a handful of rocks on the installation from a few hundred feet above it.
Shards of the broken mirrors are lying around on the ground at two or three of the larger damage points.

