Surprisingly, however, the most urgent requirement projected in the field was for such basic equipment as binoculars, prismatic compasses and radio communication.

And what you see there in that tissue section, in fact, is you see that reflector tape.

Before the light bulb was invented, people had figured out how to put a reflector behind it, focus it a little bit put lenses in front of it, focus it a little bit better.

But the more the US and authoritarian Arab regimes attacked the station, the more the station became a reflector of some of the radical Islamic trends. In the Danish cartoon case and the recent controversy over the Pope s statements, the station was clearly seen as making the news rather than just covering it.

So we created this genetic algorithm to try this out, we made a model in XL of a multi surface reflector, and an amazing thing evolved, literally evolved, from trying a billion cycles, a billion different attempts, with a fitness function that defined how can you collect the most light, from the most angles, over a day, from the sun.

So I thought of an idea what if we collect the sun with a large reflector like I had been thinking about way back when, when I was in high school but maybe with modern technology we could make a cheaper, large collector, concentrate it to a small converter, and then the conversion device wouldn't have to be as expensive, because it's much smaller, rather than solar cells, which have to be covering the entire surface area that you want to gather sun from.