Inventor looks to shake up cleantech with smart solar trackers

Grist
By Heather SmithSep 25, 2015, 1:04 pm159 pts
I am peering through the glass window of a refrigerator-sized machine. The machine is named Endurance, if you go by the printing on its side, or Lucy, if you go by what Leila Madrone calls it. I’m watching some plastic get tortured. It’s going through the equivalent of 100 years of life in a harsh desert…

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