MIT team explains cost-efficient solar power system

A team led by MIT students this week successfully tested a prototype of what may be the most cost-efficient solar power system in the world--one team members believe has the potential to revolutionize global energy production.

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[Kirin122]

This is a prototype so stop frekin qq-ing and flaming.

[ReadyBunker]

@ReadyBunker

You can also place plastic box wrap material over a 2x4 stand about three feet off the ground, and pour water in it to build a puddle in the middle...The ray will melt wood just as fast....Practical applications guys, that's what we're after not some big steam toy that cost a crap load of money.

[ReadyBunker]

Get with the guys over at Astronomy to program the dish to follow the sun...This will save the manpower to have to keep turning it. This is MIT at work....Come on guys! We have the technology for telescopes to follow stars, it's not that difficult to follow a big bright star. Nice build though!

[businessdesigner]

Efficient photo volataic cells-solar panel usually require chemical engineering in addition require brillian mechanical channeling and routing like LED P or F channels to maximize output. Trajectory coordinating photonic affecter optimization.

[hesellsmystuff]

Solar collectors are used to create power - not ego stroking for eggheads - and a little steam - 

[deezynar]

@onthecuttingedge2005

What is a wave guide?

[deezynar]

@SuperCaviTationIstic

Why do you think the collector coil doesn't fill the entire focus area?

[humexavier]

Can you use other light sources on solar panels and get same energy like wrapping panels with El wire or electroluminescent glow wire or fiber optic glow wire and get more energy than you put into it?

[77GSlinger]

WELL SAID! PURE ACADEMIC MIND CONTROL GARBAGE FOR RICH KIDS!

Build an implosion Turbine you rich brats and do something worthwhile for the world. This cumbersome contraption is an academic joke and produces next to nothing and is an old worn out idea, not new!

Steam power is dinosaur technology, heating up stuff and blowing up stuff is all academics know how to do.

Academics go insane if you mention "Cold Fusion" or free energy, they prefer slavery to energy baron supporting mit lies

[mhlpn]

I think it's a very good idea, after all we know that steam produces much more bang for the buck than other chemical reactions. Hence the reason all coal, nuclear, natural gas powered plants ultimately heat water to produce steam and then use that steam to power turbines to make electricity. Last but not least, this is more or less a science project, M.I.T.'s students put it together - there's no money to make a large one, just prove or disprove a hypothesis/best result for energy production.