Maybe the application but tech wise not seeing much new, heat exchanger for electrical generation, satalite dish tracking of a signal (albiet light spectrum).

Maybe the application but tech wise not seeing much new, heat exchanger for electrical generation, satalite dish tracking of a signal (albiet light spectrum). Maybe if the mirrors had prisms which would focus the light frequency for solat to the cells and would focus the thermal at another spot, that would be neat. Then could of had reflective panels that absorbed the heat and processed there and only reflected the light for solar convertion. Now be nice if solar heating systems and panels were combined, could have a lens like tube that would absorb the heat but reflect the light towards a solar panel. Though for me why solar panels do not have large lenses infron as a form of even plastic lens would or glass would work out cheaper than some panel tech and with that use less panels and use less expensive elements and be cheaper over say plastic/glass used to focus. Well that is something I do ponder. Still hope it works out and if it don't then they will learn lots. But it is sort of just of taking the Archimedes death ray approach http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_ArchimedesResult.html http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_Archime... So as you say it will be down to the conversion of light and thermal at one point. But for me that whilst useful (more so in space perhaps) is for me at least complicating a problem in which other approaches would seem easier to engineer (ie collect heat in the panels).