Multinational energy companies are pumping money into Raygen, John Lasich’s company, which uses thousands of mirrors, satellite grade solar panels and big dams full of water to make the Mildura sunshine available after dark.
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- The 47-year obsession behind Australia’s super strength solar cell The concentrated solar thermal project that Lasich’s company Raygen has built on the outskirts of Mildura has its origins in the backyard experiments Lasich conducted in the 1970s.
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