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The good news: as described, this method concentrates the solar energy using a series of lenses, increasing the efficiency of each cell.

The bad news: this means the panel needs to be pointed at the sun at all times. It can't be a passive panel bolted to a rooftop, it has to constantly track the sun.

And no, this is not remotely a new idea -- it's been evaluated, and the difficulty of tracking the sun is why it's not used more often.

> A novel ...

It is not novel. It is an old idea.

No? Unless I'm utterly missing something, the thrust of this design is that it doesn't require tracking at all.

Rather, it doesn't require tracking -and- it's a concentrating design.