Low Cost Solar Power

Using a solar furnace as a power source, we can provide energy for homes, schools, villages, and communities.

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[enticed2zeitgeist]

Do the boilers get fed fresh water from a pump somewhere? How does the fresh water feeding into the boilers not lower the temperature of the water that is already boiling?

[thorargent]

@enticed2zeitgeist The condensate from the steam is recycled by a small piston pump into the boilers.  This maintains the temperature very closely to the boiling point. In testing this was an open system but in a production system this would be a closed cycle device.

[007sofian]

costfull ??

[thorargent]

@007sofian if we can set up production, I expect that the cost will start at two dollars per watt and fall to about a dollar per watt as our methods get better.

[GetMeThere1]

When you say that your 10 lenses collect 14 Kw, do you mean that, while the sun is shining you could produce 14Kw of electrical energy? Thus, if you ran it for 2 hours it could produce 28Kw-hours of power? If so, that's enough to power the typical home for 24 hours, correct?

I'm supposing, then, that you designed your array to be about the right size needed to fully power a home 24/365, figuring about 3 hrs sun/ day. Is that right?

[thorargent]

@GetMeThere1 In reality there is only 6 kilowatts of usable power from the system because nothing is 100% efficient. It must run for 5 hours to produce enough to run the average home. Our goal is of course efficiency but the higher goal is low cost. So we work at the tradeoff of cost versus power. lower efficiency is acceptable if it does not take your whole yard and cost you a fortune. Cost per watt is the key.

[ramgueta]

the sound of the success 4:00

congratulations

[magna59]

So you re using the water / steam ..... so how are you going to lub the turbine ? To keep it out of the steam.

[redisk]

i cannot find your current site for updates so I thought Id ask here. How much farther have you gotten into this being either production ready or easily set up for novices

[acclivitous77]

carefull with all that venting... you may melt/deform the lenses!

[boxa888]

@thorargent man i had a projection tv and my dad thought it was junk and crushed it for junk on accident, do u know anywhere where i can get large fresnel lenses like the projection screen ones cheaply? thanks alot, amazing work,