A 3.6-ton mirror three inches thick sits on a Maui volcano collecting sunlight, and keeping it from cooking itself takes seven miles of coolant pipe, thirteen separate temperatures and about a swimming pool of ice made fresh every night
The sheer scale of what it takes to look at sunlight is staggering, but when you read the spec sheet for a science project, it’s easy to forget that this kind of hyper-engineered…
By Imani Sutton ·