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| Chisco1389 |
 Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:41 am Post subject: Solar Generator take 2 |
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This is the second draft for my solar generator design. light reflects off the first dish to the second sending the light into a tunnel which ends at a water tank. the water heats up evaporates and pushes a turbine. it uses a weight at the top of a water tank to slowly sink over a time period of 12 hours tracking the sun. at the end of each day it must be reset.
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| Guest |
| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:52 am Post subject: |
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Innefficient, too lossy. Look up Solar furnace, replace the crucible with a coil to heat the water (the last few degrees to boiling) . Also preheat the water in a large radiator insulated from the wind.
Your sun tracker strikes me as very primitive, there are other ways, such as using electronics and a small motor from a few solar cells.
THe light/tunnel heating the water is sheer nonsense (in terms of efficiency).
2/10 Keep trying. |
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| kojax |
| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Fiber optics *might* be that good these days, but still Guest is right. Any setup where you're using steam is going to be very inefficient. Steam never transfers a very high percentage of the energy you put into it back into electricity.
I like the fiber optic idea, though. |
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