New Solar Concentrator Design from UC San Diego

A new solar concentrator design from an electrical engineering PhD student at the University of California, San Diego could lead to solar concentrators that are less expensive and require fewer photovoltaic cells than existing solar concentrators.
The graduate student, Jason Karp and his colleagues presented the design in a paper in the January 2010 issue of the journal Optics Express (http://psilab.ucsd.edu/publications.html). On April 15, Karp and his solar concentrator won the 2010 Rudee Research Expo Outstanding Poster Award at the 29th Annual Research Expo at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering (http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/re/).

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Science & Technology

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• Solar concentrator
• photovoltaic
• better solar panels
• UC San Diego
• UCSD
• Jacobs School of Engineering
• Solar San Diego technology
• Earth Day

[MySchizoBuddy]

Will this be able to use diffuse radiation as well or is it still not usable like every other CPV design.

[GameOver1260]

Just like the old TV sets that scanned a two dimensional image with time, a three dimensional image can be electromagnetically scanned into molten silicon that forms a liquid photovoltaic cell, melted within a crucible using parabolic solar.

[czarsolarhydrowind]

@HighCardWins Or saltwater to make salt and distilled fresh water?

[HighCardWins]

Hook some fiber optics to the end of the collector and "pump" light anywhere you need it. In a dark building perhaps.