Slurryguy,
Thanks for all the cool links. If someone were to attach one of these to a plate mounted on a tripod with two axis control it could track the sun and be even more efficient. With two PV cells mounted both horizontally and vertically (4 in all) they could argue with each other till they were even driving two 3/4 hp. DC motors mounted on each of the aforementioned 2 axis.
There could be incorporated a couple of limit switches so that at the end of the day as the light played out, the limit switch would rotate the device back to its morning position to await a new day. Put in a battery for the DC motors, a PV panel to charge it and it would operate hands off.
There would be that small glitch of what to do with all the hot in the focus....generator?, heat an insulated hole in the ground for stealing from in the winter, heat an algae pond for greater gain?
I imagine a papercrete box 30' X 30' X 15' that is filled with alternating layers of dirt, pipe from the collector, intermingled with pipe from the use (house, shop, barn). There would be total separation from the two systems thereby enabling one to use something other than water in the collector to carry the heat. The domestic side would be clean.
So this whole thing would be underground so the PC would need to have some AE or something to keep it from completely disintegrating over time. The best part is that it would be nonstructural, dirt on the outside would support the wall as the dirt on the inside pushes it. So the PC would be the insulation necessary to "store" the energy.
Ron
Thanks for all the cool links. If someone were to attach one of these to a plate mounted on a tripod with two axis control it could track the sun and be even more efficient. With two PV cells mounted both horizontally and vertically (4 in all) they could argue with each other till they were even driving two 3/4 hp. DC motors mounted on each of the aforementioned 2 axis.
There could be incorporated a couple of limit switches so that at the end of the day as the light played out, the limit switch would rotate the device back to its morning position to await a new day. Put in a battery for the DC motors, a PV panel to charge it and it would operate hands off.
There would be that small glitch of what to do with all the hot in the focus....generator?, heat an insulated hole in the ground for stealing from in the winter, heat an algae pond for greater gain?
I imagine a papercrete box 30' X 30' X 15' that is filled with alternating layers of dirt, pipe from the collector, intermingled with pipe from the use (house, shop, barn). There would be total separation from the two systems thereby enabling one to use something other than water in the collector to carry the heat. The domestic side would be clean.
So this whole thing would be underground so the PC would need to have some AE or something to keep it from completely disintegrating over time. The best part is that it would be nonstructural, dirt on the outside would support the wall as the dirt on the inside pushes it. So the PC would be the insulation necessary to "store" the energy.
Ron
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