Toward The Sun

Looks at some of the research into tapping and storing the sun's energy for use in heating homes and providing power for industry. Visits a project in Nebraska where solar power is used in an irrigation scheme which delivers a thousand gallons a minute. Shows the Tower Power in Mexico which uses thousands of mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays so that they are able to burn through two-inch steel plates.

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