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Release date: 2010-10-15

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Can the Sun light directed from a mirror installed on a satellite generate more solar power?

The solar panels would be lid by computerized satellites, that could make possible to improve drastically the generation of free energy. 24hours a day. On multiple zones of the surface of the Earth, or Sol III. Sustainable and free.


Considering the costs of building/maintaining the system of mirrors on the orbit and impossibility to manage condition of the atmosphere this idea might be infeasible.

Solar Panel Mirror Booster 30% increase in power output with mirrors


This video is a rough version of a concept using broken mirrors to boost the power output of a regular PV panel. Monocrystalline Solar. The ...

Can mirrors be used to concentrate solar power?

As in,aim beams of light at a solar panel or does it lose what it needs through the transition to supply power?
Holy shit I thought I was way out of line lol thanks!


Yes you can concentrate the sun light on to a solar panel, but as they have said the heat build up is some thing you must determine how to dissipate. The more you concentrate the solar energy the more heat must be handled.

We are...

why can't you make a solar mirror erray powerfull enough for your house?

You know those mirror things that are in the desert that heat up oil and the turn water into steam. That then turns a turbine? Shoot I used to cook ants with power of the sun.


You can do it. The best way is to use a sterling cycle engine to run the generator. A prototype system is being developed in California.

All technological products take a lot of money to design and develop. Once that is done, then...

HDE (TM) Rotating Mini Display Stand - Solar Powered
HDE

Price: $19.99 $4.41

Use to display small items weighing less than ~8 oz/.22 kilo/.5 lb
Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 4.3cm (3.9 x 3.9 x 1.6in)
Also works under fluorescent lighting

Is solar power affecting the global climate?

So, all these massive mirrors that point to a central cooling tower - surely these mirrors are stopping the suns energy to enter the earth and to radiate back to the atmosphere?

Is solar power going to cause the earth to freeze by...


No way. There is so much sunlight coming to the earth, that its gonna have almost zero effect on the environment. Global warming is cause by increasing levels of carbon in our atmosphere. Some of the light from the sun is meant to reflect back...

What household materials can we use to heat up water with solar power?

Like for example mirrors and stuff but what else??


Dig a backyard pond and line it with black plastic sheets. Put copper pipes in the bottom of the pond. Fill the pond with salt water except on the top carefully put a layer of fresh water. Run water through the copper pipes. The pipe water...

I have to heat two liters of water for a school prodject by using solar power?

I'll add more details when i get the paper.
but it needs to heat two litters of water by only solar energy, it has to fit in the school, cannot use parabolic mirrors or magnifying glass. there needs to be some way to measure the...


Use a large heavy duty black plastic trash bag and put the 2 liters of water in it and loosely close the bag. Lay the bag out flat in the sun on the blacktop at school and you will find that it will heat the water quite hot. Do not seal the...


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    , Dr Mitsos and Mr Noone found that they could do better. They divided each of the mirrors in a real power plant, PS10, in southern Spain into about 100 pieces. (Or, rather, they divided a computer representation of each mirror.) They then plugged each of those pieces into a computer model that calculated all of the energy losses by noting points where mirrors were not optimally oriented to the sun and places where they hindered one another by blocking incoming or reflected rays. It then rejigged them into a better arrangement.

    Fermat’s conjecture

    Previous efforts have been directed mainly at stopping the mirrors shading each other, which tends to mean spreading them out. Dr Mitsos and Mr Noone also wanted to save space. In trying to do so they stumbled on an unusual arrangement that had the desired effect. When they showed this layout to a third researcher, Manuel Torrilhon of Aachen University in Germany, he recognised the spiral patterns within it, and this prompted the trio to test a design specifically modelled on nature.

    Google Develops New Solar Thermal Mirror Prototype

    Google announced last year that they were working on new technology that would make solar thermal energy cheaper than coal.  Just a few months later, they have a prototype and expect a product to be ready in as little as a year.

    Google's energy czar, Bill Weihl, said the company is focusing on redesigning the mirrors, using alternative materials on the reflective surface and the substrate on which the mirror is mounted.  The new technology could halve the cost of building a solar thermal plant and bring the cost of the electricity down to 5 cents/kWh or less.

    The prototype is being internally tested before more rigorous external testing, but two solar companies, BrightSource and eSolar, are already interested in the technology.  Google is a major investor in both companies and has said if the prototype works, the companies would use the technology.

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    Plenty of power, bling and safety features

    Vancouver Sun - Apr 09, 2010

    In addition to all the usual power items, the Terrain comes standard with ultrasonic rear parking assist and an auto-dimming rear-view mirror with backup
    Spanish Solar-Thermal Investment Forecast at $16.7 Billion

    BusinessWeek - Apr 08, 2010

    April 8 (Bloomberg) -- Power companies are planning to invest a record 12.5 billion euros ($16.7 billion) in Spanish solar-thermal plants
    Kept in the dark for 60 years..the world's first solar panel

    Mirror.co.uk - Apr 09, 2010

    That is enough power to run a modern day digital watch. 1883 Charles Fritts invented the first basic solar technology in the USA. In 1946 American Russell
    Vijay Mallya on a high

    Chandigarh Tribune - Apr 07, 2010

    It will cater to the power requirements of the stadium and the surplus will be fed to the grid. The solar power generated through 1 MW solar PV power plant
    Solar Thermal: The Next Generation

    Greentech Media - Mar 29, 2010

    Solar Thermal: The Next Generation The hot air then gets funneled through a gas turbine rejiggered for solar power. "We take a gas generator and solarize it," said Sass Somekh,