How to Use solar collector in a Sentence
solar collector
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The end result, at this stage, is a very inefficient solar collector.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2018-12-12
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The system can also run on low-grade heat from waste sources or solar collectors, reducing energy demands.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Jan. 2026
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That is, put solar collectors in an orbit in space where sunlight is always on tap unimpeded and a collector can be of any size desired.
—New Atlas, 20 Nov. 2025
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The small planet would have been converted into a horde of mining and manufacturing robots, powered by fleets of Dyson Swarm solar collectors.
—Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 2020-02-28
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In the 1960s physicist Freeman Dyson postulated that advanced, energy-hungry civilizations might enshroud their home stars in solar collectors—later called Dyson spheres—to absorb practically all of a star's light.
—Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 2017-05-01
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