Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University (Aachen, Germany) have developed a concentrated solar power (CSP) design that reduces the amount of land required to build a CSP plant, while increasing the amount of sunlight its mirrors collect. By rearranging the mirrors, or heliostats, in a pattern similar to the spirals on the face of a sunflower, they could reduce the CSP footprint by 20% and increase its potential energy generation. The pattern apparently minimizes heliostat shading and blocking by neighboring mirrors.
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