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I'd be interested in the health and safety of working around these systems.

It feels like the sort of thing it would be very easy to forget the danger of as there's minimal moving parts and no scary sounds.

Surprised a henchman hasn't been thrown into the danger area in a James Bond film yet.

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Well there have been issues with flash fried birds at a recently built solar plant. And i think they also have a incident where the mirrors got misaligned and set the collection tower on fire.

That said i think you would feel the heat radiating from the thing, as no mirror is perfectly reflective.

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