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  • great video thanks

  • interesting video and very informative

  • some great inforamtion here thanks

  • Parabolic mirror,but flat mirror falls off the shelf for next to nothing. This is effectively a p.m., without the expense of having to shape it.Shaping comes from the control system, and although pricey to develop, engineers scratching their heads is expensive, the servos to drive these could come out of the RC market, like the flat mirror cheap, There are some self cleaning glass out there. Big up these guys & their lap tops....there on the right track...on the sunny side of the street !

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  • use xbox kinnect as an inteligent eye to fellow the sun

  • Curved mirrors are so much better at this.

  • Very cool

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  • why dont you just put more mirrors that way you will get more light and they will take less space or you can put more lines smaller and with more mirrors :)

  • @Marin6991 this wouldn't help. 1000 lines of mirror covering a surface of 6ft by 6ft wouldn't harvest more energy than 100 lines of mirrors covering the same surface (if they are aimed/angled properly).

  • paravolic mirror with a tracker isnt it the same?

  • Instead of using plane mirror, use Concave mirror and arrange it as a dish antenna! And Bingo! all done

  • On hail storm away from an afternoon crying.

  • you can grow plant and burn to make more energy out of this design.

  • concave mirror . cut the space and reaction time from the sun .

  • What about ultra violet light for cloudy days?

  • there is nothing better than cold fusion

  • Very simple technology, anyone can do this. Good job. Can generate heat to run a turbine as well.

  • realy youve never herd of Galilao. You live and work on a moving ball the sun is in the center of that movment. Place a colector at the center of a circle and then watch out. If you still dont understand me write me at TAGz 3339 @ y I will draw you a picture. How can so many smart people be so slow?

  • @Tagz3339 I don't understand, and I'm intrigued! Explain please?

  • 500 suns ey? Energyproblem solved... talk about poor choice of word =)

  • why not use a lens above the parabolic mirror to concentrate it even more to the panel

  • @kellyboy5 I did think about that! But after reflection, a lens wouldn't work since the reflected rays come from different angles. A lens would be effective only if the rays go straight into it in the middle.

  • they forgot'n chemtrails....

  • watch,dont fish and drive!

  • Cleaning all those mirrror would be a right pain in the ass.Far cheaper and easier to use a parabolic mirror.

  • this is a good idea, and as far as the criticisms on here thats what engineers are for just like any technology that has ever existed it usually is around for 10 years before it is perfected, or at least efficient, and made cost effective.

    my thought is wouldn't it be easier to use a parabolic curve and put the PV cell at the center? like a solar collector except with a PV cell instead of using steam. less moving parts less likely to fail

  • Harness the power of 500 suns lolololol.

  • Search for "meet the innovators" on Youtube to see a diversely led global design team driving a traditionally male dominated industry

  • too many moving parts and time waste with cleaning thrillions of mirrors .

    Better put a Stirling Dish on your roof and be happy!

  • @PleasureTV yes and maintenance and replacement of broken or damaged parts will be quite costly. Add tot hat our consuption needs grow more and more each passing yeand it solar may not represent more than 5 percent in best case scenario and that's IF we invest BILLIONS into it!

  • @GeoffreyRahl Dude You live in France - contry where Nuclear Power is acceptet by society, and that's reasonable. But in USA it's a different story, they want to go Green inspite of the energy crisis .

    Solar Power is not the answer though

  • Solar energy can easily solve the impending energy crisis in future.

  • @amberjacksolar Leadtime, and Scale will will make it fail!

  • usa HAS2b the leader in all new green technologys

  • Excellent you guys,please keep up the great work.

  • Stupid idea, all they are doing is copying in miniature the giant arrays that are already being used in the desert to generate electricity through steam from the sun's heat.

    They make cheap FLEXIBLE solar panels now anyone can order online that generate a lot more power for a lot less cash.

    Besides, anyone that designs something without taking into account maintenance costs and WEATHER is an idiot.

  • trying to save money by getting rid of most of the solar cell but adding a bunch of tiny ass mirrors?

    HAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHA

  • heliostat ,stepper motor ,perpendicular. its kinds sexy and kinda confusing at the same time not as funny as the sub titles which were written by a deaf azerbaijany- cumon dumb it down a bit and get the sub titles sorted and at least californians can gain from free very expensive technology .me i live in bargoed south wales the sun comes out every september for a few days to shine on my slum ,i dont think the heliostat costing thousands of dollars will do exept for blinding daytime burglars

  • 1:50

    that laptop is clearly off :\

  • Why not use a parabolic mirror on that solar panel

  • @ronaldgrider that was my fist thought. they can simply use concave mirror it would be similar tot he satellite dish and it will concentrate energy in one spot

  • 1 kw is only enough for my high performance gaming rig. i need more for my lights, my fridge, and my air conditioner. i am a fat american FEED MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

  • The solar chimney can operate AT NIGHT, as the ground is heated and that heat is used at night. The Green Tower people have designed enhancements to this effect that allows their tower to run at 89% at night, with 6 DAYS reserve, no plumbing needed.

    2/3 of the greenhouse area is suitable for farming with about a 170% increase in crop output.

    It could be a housing co-op, with about 3400 shareholders sharing the costs and profits. Who needs big investors? Same price as a coal fired plant.

  • If they pay me $900 a week 8 hours a week 5 days only. I'll be the Azimuther.

    Limited offer only. Nasa want me also to as a Safety Inspector for the next space shuttle project and stop it blowing up.

  • You guys need to look up the Himawari fiber optic lighting system. A japanese professor developed it back in the late 70's. focused solar power without heat through fiber optic bundles, way easier than all your moving parts. I'm not knocking your work, good idea with the mirrors but in snowy cold climates that will screw up your system. Mirrors don't heat up to melt ice and snow. look it up and make it better! Good luck and good engineering!

  • just be fare on the price

  • you are just making steam it is shit you know from burning ants lol

  • I doubt it will ever get UL listing as it is obviously a fire hazard. Just like alot of other similar technologies I have seen only they used sterling engines.

  • 1kw hahaha thats nothing

  • The energy of 500 suns? I hate journalists

  • Not very effective if a single hail will destroy the contraption. Isn't very convenient really.

  • LAFF 500 hundred suns lol.. yea rite.. NO way that something like this is going to make mass production ..its to big and not enoughf power!

  • if this technology works i wonder what will happen to the reflection from the mirrors

    be hazard to aerospace?

  • california already has some valleys filled with these mirros

  • Venus project will bring this solar technology to the masses

  • shouldn't circle instead of rectangles be used ?

  • i bet the reporter feels smart after saying photo voltaic

  • bad quality video !!!

  • Last month, in Spain, 40 % of the energy was coming from the wind one WE CAN MAKE THE THE CHANGE!

  • @roblemin : 40%???? that is clearly impossible! do some research before spreading bullshit dude!

  • why aren't they using bowl-shaped mirrors instead of flat mirrors?

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  • HARNESSING! Harnessing solar energy. The media often explains things poorly and spreading confusion.

  • developing LOW COST flat PV cells will be more benificial in the long term!  Remember the saying "Keep It Simple Sonny" How much maintance will be needed on all that mechanical stuff for tracking, not to mention keeping the mirrors clean and aligned

  • @bccooleycompany im sure there will be contractors installing and maintaining these units.

  • idk about this one. we need to use tesla coils./

  • I bet that sweater he's wearing is pretty warm... haha...

  • what exactly is the innovation? concentrating sunlight is as old as solar voltaic. solar power is silly anyway. Its weather dependend and notoriously refuses to work during the night. geothermal power has none of those disadvantages, is available on every place on the planet (you dont need cables running over miles) and needs a fraction of energy to build compared to solar voltaic per kWh.

  • concentrated solar pv is pointless........ it will never genrate enough power.

    concentrated solar thermal is the way forward.

    Bill Gross 1:40 is ceo of esolar as well which uses the thermal variety to generate power in 5MW module for utility electricity.

  • sadly both men dissapeared and company burned to the ground. go figure

  • sadly for us , hurray for capital concentration

  • That's a pretty good idea actually.. especially on cloudy days. I wonder whether or not the panels can spend years in the blazing sun, though. I mean it must get hundreds of degrees

  • they've already had something similar to that for a while now, except that the mirrors were used to concentrate the suns energy to boil water and then make energy when the steam would rotate huge turbins

  • Special oil not water.

  • all this because? seems alot like the perabolic versions but much more complex.

  • lol wana know the funny part i alrdy live in pasadena california lol so i dont have to come.

  • Excellent! I hope for all human kinds sake that this works!

  • som mirrors wont get dirty its some weir synthetic shit

  • @NJRocks281 Who says they can't have automated cleaning systems? Your car does. It doesn't take much power for that. You need to be realistic buddy. Furthermore, who says power plants cannot have automated systems?

  • @NJRocks281 What do you think all those mexicans at home depot are for?

  • @NJRocks281  well it can be encased by a plastic casing fuck tard

  • @NJRocks281 who cleans all the public toilets? Somebody must, I bet they would rather clean mirrors. But hey you might be right, people would rather breath in coal that do a little work to make the world a better place (and save mone)

  • @NJRocks281 Robots can...

  • Save Earth - Destroy Sol

  • What waste of money. You can use a satilight dish with mirrors would do the same thing. With a tracker. Is this the best solar tec company can do. I would not invest in their prototype because it has been done, twenty years ago. No new tec here.

  • I have an idea.....

    Why dont we eliminate the saltwater, flame and sterling engine..

    Take the ocillating electrical energy only...and through a system of electro magnets and a rotating shaft have it produce propulsive power... We take the rotating shaft, connect to a generater AND WAHLA!... We kiss the electric companies and the Arabs goodbye!

  • If I've understood, you're saying something like; take an electric motor (which turns electromagnetism into movement) then hook it up to an electric generator (which turns movement into electromagnetism).

    The problem is that the electromagnet is using electricity, then giving it to the generator in the form of movement, which the generator then turns into electricity.

    There is no source of new power being produced, you're just passing it around and adding nothing.

  • >renewable solar energy

  • Wouldn't a piece of silicon, (at the temperatures a focussed sun can reach), melt and vapourise !!! ???

  • gee , I can feel the love in here (not) Good , bad or indifferent , renewables are the way to go , regards from down under in oz

  • obviously it is over complicated...but the intent is to achieve a low profile unit that will sit on a flat industrial roof. we all have a tv much more complex than this device, so the complexity is a mute consideration when mass produced. heftycat pointed out the parabola's have been around a while, but rotate in only one axis not two, and are less efficient. ironically bird poop is and issue, (and snow?)

  • i think the design look very impractical, why no make the mirros a bowl shape like a dish. would that gather more sun light.

  • Agreed... Ya know, there's so much time spent on this, it's crazy if you asked me... Development for tracking/azymuth tuning are about the best that come out of this... But there are other solutions. The parabolic seems to do that already... taking signals from moving satelites without moving itself.. Spending the last few years on this I'd say is a loss in innovation, cause these guys surely know more than me - but their direction....suspect... Though still right general direction...green...

  • I think that you'd be able to get more light from the same sized mirror with a bowl shape. They're probably more worried about price than size though.

    Flat mirrors are just glass on metal, a bowl that can focus decently is probably smaller but more expensive for the same amount of light..

  • I was searching for this comment!

    YES! Why not to use a dish???!!! Any kind of dish! Even prime focus is OK! Just replace receiver with solar element, make mirros serface of dish (stainless still) and point it to the sun! Easy and the same concept! Ofcause it will be more expensive than Sat TV dish because dish should have rotator and be pointed always to the sun.

  • what if the mirrors get dirty, birds poop on them, or go off alignment. I have shivers already anticipating the pain one has to deal with when doing maintenance.

  • Heliostat does NOT mean "table of mirrors".

  • What u said is correct ,I made a solar water heater without this motor which can work on suns path.

  • LOL They invented hot water !!!

  • this technology is as old as fuck. they invented nothing new unfortunately. one can even put a sterling engine or water heaters in the hot spot to produce steam and run the steam turbine instead of use of inefficient semiconductors

  • mabey i should. I'm very conservitive with my consumption. I can live off of 2 kwh a day.....sometimes less

  • SuperSexyBoiGod you just keep your race hate alive and well,it's probably all you really have to hang onto.

  • I do not hate other humans because of thier race, but you have been exposed for what you are and your sick mental problem,SuperSexyBoiGod ....OK

  • Learn your history, the found remains of a white man in North America dates before any Spanish or South American set foot in North America. You slow learners never get your facts straight.

  • no i Am American native to the USA, you worry about your infected genes, not mine

  • I am American and so glad that I am not mexican-American mental case

  • Good idea , but look at the vid its a cloudy day .

    so , if there are clouds no or limited power ,solar is an answer but what happens if you have bad weather for 5 days a row do we just shut everything down , and then at night were do you get your power ? Wind? Wind power ,good idea ,we have lots of wind farms here in my state , they produce less than 10% on a good day ! So solar is not the answer ,wind is not the answer ,the 2 together wont make it!

    To force Change is not good, tomorrow ?

  • That is why you set up large collectors in the deserts that can store energy and be transferred.

    the same way we can only get oil from some places, we dig it there, store it, and than transfer it.

  • Collectors only collect solar energy ( weather it's PV electricity , or heat , to store PV electricity you need battery's . To store solar heat you need large tanks of some kind of liquid that will retain heat at temps that are useful . Solar One in Spain , uses water , Solar 2 the one they are working on has a good shot , they are going to use molten salt to store the heat . Don't get me wrong solar is good , but right now its still in the dark ages ! every day we get one step closer .

  • ummm the power is stored in batteries. Like on My house. I can sustain for 2 weeks withought sun...

  • Well maybe you should make a vid and show us your system that can run your house for 2 weeks , a 1.4 kw stand alone system only puts out 40kwh per week with 4hrs of direct sun per day , you must have a real big system with a huge battery bank , maybe 10,000 ah ?

  • Two questions.

    1) What is the advantage that the sunflower design has over solar dishes?  A solar dish doesn't need all of this tedious manipulation for so many moving parts. All you have to do is get it to point at the sun, and it collects the light via a parabolic dish.

    2) At what point does the concentrated light become TOO dangerous, making the PV cell melt? Is this at all a problem?

  • good questions i have the same ones

  • I thought of this idea many years ago and documented my findings. I'm perplexed by the fact on one has attempted using some form of magnification, outside of what I've researched. I used a magnifying glass to concentrate the sun matter making it much greater and more controllable. Of course, with my not having the resources to conduct further studies I'm at a standstill. However, I'm not so much worried about paten infringement, I'm more concerned with finding a better source of power for all.

  • why do you move so many mirrors and keep the pv unit stationary??

    is it not possible to design a system that concentrates light on one point(which moves as the sun moves..) and have a moving photo voltaic unit which moves along with our focal point??

    i think that wud be better - and much more easier..

  • The reason they don't move the PV unit is because the mirrors would have to be even bigger than they are now , that means more space needed to produce the same amount of electricity !

  • You're absolutely right Supersexyboigod. It is a conspiracy and I am part of it. Fear me!

    Now don't go commit a bunch of crimes because you're pissed off and end up in jail, that would be a real shame.

  • arent there alot of blacks and asians in these institutions? And before u say 'the people who really control it arent them' where is ur 'proof'. you remind me of the guy from american history X but backwards...at the same time though i have to respect ur ideas and opinions...i cant judge.

  • So there is a legislation that says the above? show me. and why would a court 'plunder' an overtaxed legislation?

  • Wuaw.

  • pretty sad you miserable people have to bring race and your deep pessimism into a technical and potentially beneficial area of science. or as we say where I come from - knobs

  • @acefreaky we're just keepin an eye on the niggers ok

  • this video is living proof that solar harnessing technology of today is BS. maybe one day when we'll put panels up in space to get 24/7 power and transfer it to earth...yeah.

    but in reality the only rational thing to do is energy conservation and nuclear plants (fusion by chance).

  • Nuclear plants in cars?

  • ahh get fucked.. you are so paranoid. I know plenty of patents issued to "people of color".

  • Harmonica? Don't tell me....you invented that as well.

    "Shylock"? Oh I see. A cheap racist jibe.

  • this is bullshit. the only reason you don't share your ideas is cause you know they suck, not cause your mexican american

  • These don't need to turn the deserts into a vast dust bowl, no! And turning it into a giant black field (of PV) is obviously a no no. Using billions of post driven COOL mirrors (without the need to bulldoze) is the final solution to UNLIMITED SOLAR thermal power with heat storage.

    The CPV concept allows thousands of times of the energy production than normal one sun PV. Why? Cause the mirrors extend the rare (such as CIGS material) "range"! CPV is twice as eff as thermal, but needs storage...

  • or maybe we just should have kept using the square wheel.............after all we dont realy know is oragin but we do know it was not the whites or the jews.. come on your hate is strong but based on weakness. I would love to be an american citizen and sure would not hate my way in. thats a great way to get hamstrung.

  • Shouldn't have thought that a problem for a boy god. Especially a sexy one. Esp a super sexy one.

  • Hey SuperSexyBlowhard hold on to your secrets I thing these guys are on to you. Shhhhh! Be bery bery qwiet. crazy wabbit.............

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  • Its not that youre a Mexican its that your thinking is small. grow up!

  • can the narrator get anymore annoying??

  • search for Technical University Darmstadt's solar dechatlon on youtube.

  • Is the announcers target audience six years old?

  • What would happen if there was a large solar storm?

  • I started a simple wed site, which has some plans and describes what sunview energy missions are. Also there are some more videos explaining the prototypes. Visit

  • the pv cell wouldnt last on that temp//

  • if you want this to work contact me

  • What's the surface temp?

  • May be a silly question, but why not just use a parabolic mirror?

  • It does indeed look like a complicated way of doing what a parabolic mirror does cheaply and almost automatically (it focusses and centers the sunlight). Though I completely encourage the kind of efforts portrayed in this clip I think a Solar Stirling Engine with parablic mirrors is simpler, cheaper and more effective.

    However, there seems to be nothing that troubles menkind as much as simplicity.

  • A parabolic mirror cost more to make, maintain, and support. A parabolic mirror also acts like a huge sail where as this system can be below the edge of the roof making it impervious to wind. Also cleaning a parabolic mirror of this size would be a pain, and this system can set to be flat and cleaned with a mop.

  • thats what i was thinking and i know how to make a very cheap one,

  • Actually it's not a really bad Idea. That is until you factor in the cost of cleaning all of those little mirrors. I have solar panels on my roof, and just like your car's windshield, they get dirty all the time. Their efficiency drops greatly when they are dirty. Cleaning them is a bitch, but cleaning all those tiny mirrors would be worse!

  • obviously your Solar Panels are water resistant, can't you have a water sprinkler system setup to clean them automatically or maully

  • Do the rains clean your car? I'm guessing that your car is like mine, and rain washes some surface junk like dust away, but it doesn't actually clean the gunk or make the surface shine again.

    And, before you suggest that frequent sprinkling could keep it from getting dirty, what about water spots... and where does the water come from, it's not cheap. doesn't really come from a tap, and sources are limited.

    Still no good.

  • What if you put a flat transparent plastic cover over the hole set of mirrors? then you just have to clean one single surface. The dirt problem persist, but will be a lot simpler to solve

  • Access for maintenance/repairs would be tough. It does not address the critical water issue. And, I'm no expert in this area but don't some, or all, plastics block the wavelengths in sunlight used for energy by solar panels. Not to mention that plastics break down rapidly when exposed to sunlight for long periods of time, which is what these plastics would be used for.

    I really like the mirrors, but I don't think it can be done sustainably; economically and environmentally.

  • Most of solar cells are developed to use visible sunligth, so if the cover is transparent it will work with this cells. About the breakdown i think you are right, it will have to be glass then... About the acces, if you put this in the top of a house the acces will be tough. But they are designing this thing to be put on top of corporate buldings that are flat and already have acces to air conditioning systems so the only problem will be having someone to clean them

  • Geothermal please

  • for sure not economical

  • Oh man, her over zealous voice is seriously annoying.

  • Muy bueno !! gracias desde argentina .

  • This seems like overkill to me. There's a lot of components that could malfunction. There's a video on youtube about a "solar tower" that the Germans built in Spain. It uses the flow of hot air to power a turbine and is much simpler.

  • It's certainly a simpler solution, however, there are people who will shun that idea simply because it's an eyesore on the horizon. It's an unfortunate reality, but reality none the less.

    To be truly energy independent, people are going to have to rethink the way we live.

  • So when it rains, whos gonna clean it?

  • "Genereate 1WK per hour" at 5:55 = I think we should understand 1KW-hour, amount of energy produced, as Joule = W . sec, or that doesn't make sense...

  • i think this is already in use in spain.

  • a nano solar pannel say 4' x 8' in say 6 years...will power all your needs... this is a truisim

  • thats tru man! my sister's loves nano tech, she said its already reality but needs more twiking.

  • Why dont you use a reflector dish made out of a mirror and then use a slew motor? Seems like you need a lesson in physics. Round parabolic shape will provide the most concentration of light for a given area. I would love to be hired on and help you out. Since i solve all your issues in this e mail.

  • The only advantage I could think of with this one instead of using parabolic dish is because of it low profile mirrors that can be mounted nicely on sloppy roof. If thats the case then they have forgotten about mounting the module at the concentration point, which become pointless.

    The dish idea is a much cheaper and easy to clean solution without any custom gears, mirros and motor, where the dish can be mounted with an existing GPS planet tracker (for astronomy) for maximum concentration.

  • this is like the same principal as when you heat the ant with your magnifying glass, it focuses the light.

  • Wow, 1kw really isnt that much

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