Grist: There is a scene in Gattaca when Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurmans characters walk through a giant concentrating solar plant spread across a broad, flat California desert. Its a striking moment in the film, partly because it illustrates how visually imposing and vast utility-scale solar power plants can be as they sprawl across the desert.
But what if those solar power plants could be built in developed areas between or atop buildings and homes without having to impact the desert - many parts of...