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Spinoff story
Concentrators Enhance Solar Power Systems
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Glenn Research Center and Fort Worth, Texas-based Entech Solar partnered through the SBIR program to adapt Entech's solar concentrator. Soon after developing the Solar Concentrator Array with Refractive Linear Element Technology, Entech and NASA worked on a version called the Stretched Lens Array (SLA). Recently, Entech incorporated elements from the SLA into a solar concentrator for Earth applications.