Comments on: 19-Year-Old Winning Awards Left & Right for Her Solar Power Helper, the SunSaluter

By: cumfy

cumfy — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 23:25:00 +0000

So did the patent get published ?

I searched for Eden Full on Google patents but nothing turned up.

Also, surely an inventor can discuss their invention if the patent is submitted and pending, which must surely be the case if someone is shelling out $275k.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:01:00 +0000

I am pretty sure that the patent will be hers and not some corporations (what bodes for the future of the patent we could only speculate poorly on).

You may be right about making it a public design, but I imagine that corporate power would make production much more difficult if it were not a patented design.

That said if its something that can be added to any solar panel, and made relatively easily with simple tools (which it sounds like it can).

I don’t really know how its built though, so I could still only speculate poorly on how this will be brought effectively to those who need it the most.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:54:00 +0000

What makes it unique is the very low cost to manufacture and the ease of repair. So that it is potentially practical for use in the developing and not just the developed world.

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:26:00 +0000

I haven’t seen it. Have pretty much put all the info I’ve found on it in this piece.

By: Redrok

Redrok — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:25:00 +0000

If it’s basically a bimetallic strip actuated device it would seem to me to be quite springy or wobbly. How will it fare in a heavy winds.

I design tracking mounts to 10 lbs per square foot, my local building code.

There have be dozens of bimetallic strip actuated solar trackers in the US patent data base. What makes this one unique?

Have you seen it?

Duane

By: jw

jw — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:08:00 +0000

ok this paypal guy, wants the brightest people he grants 100gs and poof he doesnt waste time or money like buying smart slaves cheap, no wonder hes a billionaire..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:20:00 +0000

i don’t know. sounds like she’s got something that costs a lot less than the alternatives. but i’m not an engineer and not an expert on the technical aspects of solar or what’s out there. we’ll see.

By: Dave Baldwin

Dave Baldwin — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:52:00 +0000

Okay, using a piece of bamboo is cute, but I don’t buy the “genius” in this. It’s been done before, by a variety of methods… bimetallic strips, gas cylinders with pressure differentials (Mother Earth News, about 30 years ago), probably a half-dozen other ways that no one ever bothered to patent or bring to market.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:58:00 +0000

I respect her getting the patent, but who funded this graduate student’s research? If Full really wants to help the world she would make sure that the world can use it by putting it into the public domain, as opposed to letting the patent get bought up by a corporation like GE.

By: Himanshu9024

Himanshu9024 — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:24:00 +0000

Eden Full congrats, deserves even more, good luck for future

By: Safe, Simple, Cheap: New Solar Tracking Technology a fit for Third World « Climate Denial Crock of the Week

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:03:29 +0000

[…] From CleanTechnica: Eden Full, a 19-year-old Princeton University mechanical engineering student has developed a non-toxic, cheap, recyclable device made out of metal and bamboo that allows solar panels to follow or track the Sun without the use of an electric motor. This does two things: 1) it boosts the output of the solar panels by about 40% (huge) and 2) it does so using a much cheaper and simpler method than traditional trackers commonly used in commercial projects (her technology costs $10, a lot less than the typical $600 solar tracker). […]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:23:00 +0000

Yeah, she just looks like an awesome person

By: Anumakonda Jagadeesh

Anumakonda Jagadeesh — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:34:00 +0000

Excellent. Solar tracking has been one of the constraints for wider use of Solar PV. Some researchers came out with an idea of utilising Sunflower plant biomimicking to design solar panels.
I heartily congratulate Eden Full, 19-year-old Princeton University mechanical engineering student for developing a non-toxic, cheap, recyclable device made out of metal and bamboo that allows solar panels to follow or track the Sun without the use of an electric motor.

I am happy that the youngsters are taking up research into problems that have wide applications in the field of Renewable Energy use.

Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
Wind Energy Expert
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com