Dish Stirling Engine to Replace Steam Shovel in new Climate - Focused Mike Mulligan Reboot

“Children today don’t have enough metaphors for path dependence.” said Houghton Mifflin publisher Mike Berkenbush. “We felt that the Concentrating Solar Power industry as a whole was the best introduction to how aesthetically and thermodynamically elegant engineering constructs pursued in the best of faith by affectionate, invested visionaries would be inevitably overtaken, sidelined, and forgotten by purveyors of low-cost commodity technology.”

Berkenbush was at pains to point out that like Mike Mulligan’s soon-to-be-elided-from-history steam shovel, the new CSP Mary Anne would find useful life as the heating source for a fictional Town Hall, unlike her silenced and dismembered peers at Sandia’s NSTTF.

“We’re not doing that Never Let Me Go thing here. This is a children’s book.”