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T1 - Frame assembly, aided by students on attachment, December 2006.

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T2 - Basotho engineers square the outer frame.

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T3 - First rainstorm, testing for weatherability.

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T4 - Ntate Sekhesa checks trough alignment.

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T5 - Tumelo Makhetha tack welds a parabolic trough frame.

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T6 - Transportation of the troughs to the installation site.

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T7 - Breaking down and transportation of the outer frame.

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T8 - Designing tracking cables.

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T9 - Single trough of first Lesotho installation.

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T10 - Ha Teboho villagers help install the troughs.

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T11 - Solar energy is reflected onto the absorber pipes which are surrounded by insulating glass jackets.