Comments on: New Solar Power Design Inspired by Telescope Could Produce Twice the Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: dynamo.joe http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/#comment-129409 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:52:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41218#comment-129409 “5-inch glass ball that then spreads the light evenly across a solar panel,”

That’s the innovative bit.

]]> By: Superscientis01 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/#comment-129328 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:54:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41218#comment-129328 i have designed a tree……..which has increased the efficiency of solar panels per unit area 80% . thus collecting more amount of sunlight from a limited area for larger duration. contact at superscientist01@gmail.com for more details. 

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/#comment-129301 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:26:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41218#comment-129301 Good for you. But that’s a lot of panels. Charging an EV? Huge AC load? Growing “tomatoes” in your spare room?

(You don’t need to answer that last one…. ;o)

I’m running my house on 1.2 kW and have far more power than I need most days. I’m not cooking or heating water with electricity and I have no AC load, but there’s a lot of distance between 1.2 and 10. Even if the 10 is really an 8.

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I really wish someone would release a small hybrid 4wd truck. A Volt with a bed.

The 16kW battery pack of the Volt would give me excellent backup storage. If I could get double use (transportation and deep backup) from a hybrid and have the ability to drive without a charge, it would be a sweet thang. * *I could do a lot of my present driving with my non-curtailed solar.

]]> By: sola http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/#comment-129283 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:46:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41218#comment-129283 my roof has exactly this setup. a south-east side and a south-west side. I am planning to place 5 kwh of panels on each side.

]]> By: Robert Sitton http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/#comment-129271 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:09:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41218#comment-129271 This looks like a solar oven.

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/#comment-129269 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41218#comment-129269 High percentage of direct sunlight and limited real estate.

KISS rules almost all the time.  Harder to find anything simpler than a bunch of fixed mount solar panels.  Point some east and some west to extend the solar day.  I’d bet the tracker eats more money than the power lost in E/W facing fixed mounting.

Fun math for someone:  Cost out a solar field in which half the panels face the rising Sun, half the setting Sun.  Calculate the return.

Sure, you loose about 20% over south-facing panels, but you get to sell power into earlier and later parts of the day.  Based on what we’ve seen in Germany standard mount solar is chomping the middle out of mid-day prices, leaving two daily price peaks on each side of the south-solar day.

]]> By: Anne http://cleantechnica.com/2012/08/09/new-solar-power-design-inspired-by-telescope-could-produce-twice-the-energy/#comment-129255 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:50:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=41218#comment-129255 It seems like a rather expensive setup, only suitable for regions with a high percentage of direct sunlight. It also wasn’t clear to me where exactly the innovation is compared to existing CPV systems.

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