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.
All 80 game tables and 850 slot machines form a kind of orbit around a multi-story glass sun by American artist Dale Chihuly, around which swarm scantily-clad resort guests, crisply-attired croupiers and more than a few celebrities (rumoured recent sightings include Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber).
The man was still watching, a flash of sun on the window glass hiding his mouth, but his forehead and eyes visible.
After, as the sun set, we raised a glass with the journalist corps.
The sun still came through the same glass walls to make the same patterns on the then-ultrafashionable white linoleum floors.
Nevada Solar One uses a parabolic trough design, in which curved mirrors, 16 feet from top to bottom, concentrate the sun's rays onto a glass tube with a steel bar at its center.
This prevents the pope getting uncomfortably hot when the sun is shining but also ensures the glass doesn't steam up in high humidity.
Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
Disgusted by the glass and steel hulks that glare in the sun most of the day in Dallas and Houston, Jacques Herzog envisions a museum that visitors approach on foot heresy in a kingdom ruled by cars and air-conditioning with an open-air walkway that bisects the building.
The sun-drenched 19th and 20th floor residence has floor to ceiling glass walls, a master suite with a fireplace and French doors opening to a terrace, and an oversized master bath and dressing room.
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Among the rooms that feel the most personal are the bedroom and sitting room where you can get a sense of what he saw when he woke up, from his snail clock on the glass coffee table to the mirror positioned so the rising sun hit his face.
The sidewalks of the town were gray in the early morning and at night, but the noon sun put a glaze on them, so that the cement burned and glittered like glass.
Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, proposed siting a vast, 2000 km-wide glass deflecting panel at the "inner Lagrange point" between the Earth and the sun, the latter diverting the sun's rays away from the Earth's atmosphere.
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Initially, the idea was to use plastic flexible displays (as evidenced by previous XO 3.0 renders), but degradation caused by the sun's UV rays and plastic's easily scratched surface forced the company to switch gears and use glass instead.
Every two minutes its 220, 000 giant glass mirrors, lined up in perfect rows, rotate imperceptibly with a barely audible click, tracking the sun's path across the sky.
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