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Far from making solar energy "look stupid" as you put it, postings like this inspire (some) people to try things for themselves.
I have just bought 8 fresnel lenses to try and expand on this idea. I'll post the results.
I'm sure we will all look forward to your contribution jolivier.
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A political leader was ask about solor power at a press conferance,he was unprepared on the subject so he said" WELL SOLAR POWER IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN OVER NIGHT" LOL
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Hey have you ever considered using an Old Huge Satellite dish as a Solar Collector?
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the steam press to go out and make it run. But you don't have to lose the "distilled" water. You just have to condense it inside of a heat exchanger or radiator and, then, to invest a small part of the produced energy to introduce it inside of the presurized tank. 30 liters of steam going out represents 18mililiters of condensed water going back in.... To have energy during night you can compress air into a second tank during the day and, then, use this compressed air during the night...
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what if you mounted the blowoff to a anti backflow valve and ran it back into your pressure tank? This way you would recycle your water and have to replenish your tank less often? or not at all?
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@MenTaLLyMenTaL well the steam engine itself is way less efficient requiring heat to boil the water (even it is by burning coal to provide that heat) before it even starts producing steam, BUT as i said it is thermical energy, so if you could focus the sun light in a very small area you have heat = free solution to your problem, while solar panels dont work that way and are VERY expensive, also they require extrra equipment to use that power, this is all i know as i am not an expert
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So due to longer energy conversion chain of this setup, its probably less efficient than solar panels?
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very nice, but how much did the huge len cost you?
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@Khamomil lol
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@MenTaLLyMenTaL solar panels are more expensive, more sensitive, require more space, and care (cleaning up to maintain maximun performance), and gradually they will start to lose performance as they get older, however solar panels have no moving components which means that they are less likely to fail due to friction, and they convert directly solar energy to electric vs thermical-> kinetic-> electric, i dont know, i like the steam engine idea more
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How will the efficiency of this setup to coupled to a generator to produce electricity compare with that of solar panels?
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Even nuclear plants use steam engines to make electricity. The only difference is in the fuel after all. It doesn't look like such a big progress, versus solar that doesn't burn anything before the steam is created.
I love these experiments. I felt depressed today and now I feel better.



Dan - Ref your pipe boiler. Have you done any experiments on a method to keep a replinishment feed supply of wather to the pipe as the steam boils off? Thanks: larry H. GA
sunmonleh 2 years ago
Hi Larry,
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GREENPOWERSCIENCE 2 years ago
steam requires water, which requires enough condensation to get water .
so how do we know that by using a lot of water is not going to make us not run out of water or the water price to go up too high?
petroleums and oils are still have to be used to make plastic and rubber componentry
gmspeedfreak 2 years ago
Cannot run out of water, it can use gray vs fresh or sea water. Also re-condensed for many cycle. The natural evaporation from a large lake is 10x what a power plant would use. Also keep in mind COAL FIRE plants are STEAM turbine operations. This would replace the coal, steam the same.
GREENPOWERSCIENCE 2 years ago 2
at some point in time, I know one of the major southwestern railroads experimented with using solar reflectors ( in conjunction with the firebox ) to aid in heating locomotive boilers. I don't recall if it was successful or not, but it obviously never became standard.
SR722 3 years ago
That sounds neat. If you find more information, please let me know. Thank You.
GREENPOWERSCIENCE 3 years ago