V3Solar proved that point when it unveiled its new spinning, cone-shaped solar panels, which can generate 20 times as much energy as flat panels.

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Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.

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