TROUGH MIRROR Parabolic Parabola Reflector Solar Water Heater Boil Water with the Sun.

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This is the tease video to the trough mirror how to video I am editing right now. This will be a multi part series. This project took 7 hours including research and cost $300 to complete. Mirror cost $225 local Acrylic supplier carries these sheets,


2438
1219

600MM

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• SOLAR
• PARABOLIC
• PARABOLA
• TROUGH
• MIRROR

[muddymuddymuddmann]

Awesome vid Dan, And I love the paintings on the wall of the other vid.

This looks real pretty. Did you mirror this Plexiglas or lexan or can you buy it like that? The music has a feeling of a mellow bonanza theme. When the sun finally comes out here I will resume with the new video series.

MUDDy

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

:-) music.

The plexiglass aka acrylic mirror comes that way. Just ask for mirrored acrylic from the plastics supplier in your area. Think it is .118 = 1/8" roughly.

[ricande]

What is the reflective materials you use. I have heard that Mylar for instance, can not be sold outside the US. I would realy want to buy some. I am allso looking in to vacumetubes. For heating. Any suggestions? Thinking of melting glass my self.

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

This is regular mirrored acrylic. Any plexiglass supplier sells it for about $200+ a sheet. What size tubes are you looking to get.

[AkoyPinoy2]

Ok great! Can this be implemented with current water heater?

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

Yes, you run a black pipe down the center at the focal point. Actually just short or long of it depending.

[sibalogh]

Hi Dan, can you, or anyone, tell what is a cheap yet good black coating on sufaces to collect sunlight with that is also reasonably durable?

[petrcechchelsea]

What is the power of this mirror (in watts). From the info you gave in other videos I made some calculations but they don't seem realistic ( 11kW...).

[sibalogh]

Where you get the reflector sheet from nd is it silver type?

[mwhod]

im meaning for the acrylic mirror panels , life expectancy

[mwhod]

dan do you have any data as to life expectancy for outdoor use, thanks

[Jkirk3279]

Is it a true parabola? And if so, how did you do the layout?

[billyflynn0]

what do you use it for?

[mikewm9v]

thats a weather buoy id

[collettebelch]

really educational!

[almostcapecod]

Excellent,back in the 1980's a friend and I built one almost the same,we had ribs instead of the long support boards but we were also lucky because I had another friend that worked at a company that vacuum plated plastic so we got sheets of plexi-glass mirrored.Back then we had to use graph paper to plot the parabolic curve.Nice.....