What began as a backyard experiment involving a wine cask is now a pioneering solar thermal storage solution with tens of millions of dollars in funding. In the 1970s, John Lasich built a device in his backyard to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto solar cells to generate extra power, using the bladder from a wine…

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