Fresnel Solar Power

Solar thermal generation

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• solar
• thermal
• power
• alternative
• energy

[meganacou]

Hey thorargent, great work!!! are you using here only one turbine to get the 6 kw??? and is that turbine the same small one you showed in the other videos?

[thorargent]

Yes, there is a single steam turbine at the heart of the system. It is not shown in detail due to its proprietary design. The other small demo turbine was made just to demonstrate the steam-to-electrical conversion.

[speeddammit]

@thorargent So, my question would be: Are you generating AC for immediate use? Or generating DC, storing it, and inverting it?

[thorargent]

The prototype was just to test the generation method. In actual use you would have an inverter and a battery backup system or you would sell excess power back to the grid.

[thorargent]

Thanks, I am setting up a plant to manufacture Fresnel-based power systems shortly in New Mexico. A typical household uses about 30 kwh per day in the USA so a 6 kilowatt system will have to run for about 5 hours to produce enough power for this sort of consumption. Alternatively you can also use solar water heating panels and cut 30% or about 9 kwh off that base power load. So 21 kwh means a little over 4 hours of sun will power your household.

[thorargent]

Thank you, much more to come...

[4MantisTube]

Do you have a means to store the thermal energy generated for off hours?

[Cyrock133]

Nice! Please, where can I buy these big fresnel lenses at decent price?

[carringtonblush]

Starting to look interesting.. how many kW were you able to get out of this steam flow?

[GoatHollow]

What a breath of fresh air "or steam maybe". I see so many videos on youtube, where folks are playing with Fresnel lenses, but this is the first time I've ever seen anybody follow through to the point of actually doing something with that heat - other than burning up the end of a wooden stick. Bravo!