TROUGH MIRROR SOLAR PARABOLA Hot Water Steam Engine

This is a follow up video. For the small steam engines, I moved the pipe partially out of the beam BECAUSE these small engines do not consume the steam fast enough and the hose pops off.


This trough alone is much better for preheating.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• STEAM
• ENGINE
• STIRLING
• POWER
• SOLAR
• SUN
• ALTERNATIVE
• ENERGY

[locouk]

With the concave mirror, you are heating the BACK side of the pipe, if you focus freznel lenses onto the pipe, both sides of the pipe will be heated, so the water would be flowing through a furnace.And NO, the freznel's won't affect the concave mirror if the focul length of each mirror used is of a different length.

[GREENPOWERSCIENCE]

The Fresnel Lens and Trough mirror must be in the same line for optimal performance. The Fresnel lens would remove its size from the mirrors power Cast shadow so you would not be really adding anything. Parabolic mirrors and Fresnel lens can work together if the Parabolic mirror has a 2 M focal length and is a dish type. It can redirect as needed with only minor power loss. The Fresnel Lens only works well in a direct line.

[DJRockinRob]

I see a purpose ... if you were to attach a motor to the output of the steam engine ... then.... muhahaha electricity!!!!

Where do I get a steam engine like that? Seriously - where do I get one?

[sonofhendrix]

Show us the video of your setup. no link you stink.

[aForkandaSpoon]

@mrchriswatts AWESOME, that is so cool, I am glad I am not the only one who like that kind of stuff.

[mrchriswatts]

@aForkandaSpoon The solar farm in Gattaca is near Barstow. You can find it on google maps here: 35.03338, -117.35734 (I supervised the filming of that scene) The parabolic troughs have 2 foci, one where the tube is and another about where your door handle would be if you were driving between the panels. Doh!

cw

[mangyscavenger]

Also, would using that pipe as the cylinder of a heat motor provide more HP? A short piston with all that expanding air behind it seems like it would really crank. Cap one end, insert piston in other, then let it take off when sun comes out.

[mangyscavenger]

I heard that if you curve the trough, instead of making it straight, sun tracking isn't necessary. I'm not talking about the parabolic curve of the mirror. The curve in the length will continually catch the sun as it moves across the sky.

[madox1nc]

@robfromorlando thats a very good idea. Flameable maybe :) but it is the right kind of thinking to change the world. My personal opinion is that I like the thought of the steam engine evolution as the first powerful machine man build and now being used so much again.

Heating buildings with hot oil is interesting.

[aForkandaSpoon]

disregard my small house comment but man this is powerful, by the way were do you get your mirror.

[aForkandaSpoon]

I saw some things like this in the movie Gattaca and and I have been looking for them for a while. Holy cow that produces a ton of steam, do you have problems with it cooling down eventually. Also, why use it as a pre-warmer, just make a second one and you could run a small house, damn.

[narcovice]

se srnoff to polish glass and so on it gets showroo shie.

[aNdYmAtTeR]

"... and join us in the next episode where Dan&Denise moves to Arizona and infinite sunlight, no clouds, no neighbors and no airplanes or helicopters ..."

XD