Get off the grid dang it!

THIS is the future of solar energy!

Shortly after dawn on a typical Arizona morning, a wave of photons born eight minutes earlier in the big yellow fusion reactor in the sky clears the Superstition Mountains and sweeps across Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun. On a fenced-in stretch of gravel at the edge of booming Mesa - the largest suburb in the US - the stream of newly minted light strikes what looks like a lunar lander, all bundled wires and glinting aluminum. The photons ricochet off 25 mirrors arranged in a 5- by 5-foot square and converge in a shaft of light brighter than the sun at high noon. The tightly focused stream crashes into 100 square inches of silicon suspended over mirrors, sending a spray of electrons dancing down a copper wire. A CPU revs and tiny motors whir. As one, the mirrors adjust their positions ever so slightly. And the latest attempt at keeping pace with humanity's epic appetite for energy begins another day of pulling power from the sky. read more