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When Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Research Center in the Negev desert in Israel, Professor David Faiman has developed some incredible results with its solar energy research. Despite the humble surroundings Research Center, work is at the forefront of solar technology. It might even change the way we produce energy in the world.

The head of the Research Center is Prof. David Faiman. It is very passionate about his work and not lose the opportunity to talk about the investigation. The focus of their research centers around a dish that at first glance more like a giant satellite station instead of a mirror designed to focus the sun's rays. What the mirror has to concentrate sunlight on a single point of this merger is overheating.

Professor Faiman can concentrate the sun's rays is equal to 1000 times the original current. By focusing the radiation is capable of creating large amounts of electricity.

Professor Faiman says that by concentrating the light a thousand times, are able to produce 1,500 watts from a cell, under normal circumstances is only capable of producing a watt.

Faiman and colleagues in experimenting with the use of concentrated sunlight and a very durable solar panel were able to produce more electricity than ever thought possible. According to most accounts, is the breakthrough that solar energy has been waiting decades to complete, making solar energy more practical means reducing production costs to the point that it is less expensive than power from coal, nuclear or hydroelectric power. "We actually reduced the cost of photovoltaic panels by a factor of 1000," said Faiman.

Professor Faiman says, "I feel very good when I see the first solar power plant using this technology. Until I see just another theoretical paper.

Professor Faiman and his colleagues were realize that this year could be several before paying experiences with real world results. But what is proposed in the not too distant as the dishes are scattered throughout the desert Negev and eventually supply 100% of the electricity needs of Israel.

"Take 120 kilometers of road, said," and get 50 meters each side of the road. It is twelve square miles. This is enough to build 1,000 megawatts of installed capacity. So, you can simply these dishes in a line connected to the overhead power line, and has been used primarily land not used for anything else. "

It would be easy to cancel Faiman as a common dream, where it not for the fact that their advance technology and produce solar energy, not in Israel but the United States – in the Mojave Desert in California. And, of course, the Mojave Desert is the ideal place to build the largest factory in the world dedicated exclusively to solar energy production.

Visit http://www.solarenergyassociation.com and read – Major breakthrough in solar energy increases the output of photovoltaic cells by a factor of 1,000. This could literally change the way we produce energy on a world wide basis; making solar energy cheaper than coal-fired, nuclear or even hydro-electric plants.