Scientific American: The world’s first solar power plant to employ such technology–a thermal power plant that concentrates the sun’s rays with mirrors on long, thin tubes filled with the molten salt–opened in Syracuse, Sicily, on July 14. Dubbed Archimede–after the famous Syracusan scientist Archimedes who supposedly coined the term “Eureka” for scientific discovery and reputedly repelled a Roman fleet through the use of mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays and burn the invading ships–the power plant can …