Solar thermal projects deploy fields of mirrors called heliostats that focus the sun on liquid-filled boilers to create steam that drives an electricity-generating industrial turbine.
During the trial, prosecutors showed the jury an experiment which they said showed that a soft drink-size bottle filled with the kind of liquid explosives the men allegedly planned to use could have brought down a plane in mid-flight.
He said families should live almost entirely off the spending bucket, which should be filled with a diversified, liquid portfolio of dividend-paying stocks and bonds and cash equivalents.