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On each massive unit, 100 lenses will concentrate sunlight 700 times onto tiny cells just seven square millimeters across.
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That is necessary because the balloon concentrates sunlight up to 400 times, and without this cooling the cell would quickly burn out.
ECONOMIST: Monitor
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Notably, the camera suffered from an "easily washed-out" LCD when used in sunlight which is potentially crippling at times due to the lack of a glass viewfinder.
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Gamma-rays have thousands to millions or even billions of times the energy of ordinary sunlight.
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The amount of energy in the sunlight that hits the earth totals 1, 000 times more energy than we currently use in all applications, from household electricity to transportation to heavy industry.
WHITEHOUSE: Engage and Connect
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But one of the biggest breakthroughs in clean energy was actually in solar power, as designers at Rawlemon created a spherical, sun-tracking glass globe that's able to concentrate sunlight (and moonlight) up to 10, 000 times.
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That sliding roof is tinted a very light gray-green via new process that blocks almost all damaging sunlight rays and, also, is said to be 10 times harder to bust than tempered glass.
FORBES: Test Drives
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According to the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group, the NRA spends 66 times more on lobbying than what the Brady Campaign to End Gun violence, the country's top gun control advocacy organization, spends.
CNN: December 20, 2012 -- Updated 1625 GMT (0025 HKT)
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And the NRA spends 4, 143 times what the Brady Campaign spends on campaign contributions, the Sunlight Foundation found.
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Dr Murray notes that it could not be much bigger than ten times the size of Jupiter, or it would reflect so much sunlight that it would have been seen already.
ECONOMIST: X marks the spot
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In the presentation, he explained, as he has many times since, that shielding the earth properly could deflect one or two per cent of the sunlight that reaches the atmosphere.
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