Energy Links

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http://www.gizmag.com/chemical-nanotube-solar-energy-storage/19228/ Thermal storage breakthrough

http://www.off-grid.net/2011/07/15/solar-powered-clothes-dryer/ File somewhere

http://solarsystems.com.au/ CPV The ultra-high efficiency concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) power generation system technology is based on the use of the company’s proprietary ‘Dense Array’ Convertor Technology which utilises the world’s highest efficiency triple junction (TJ) solar cells, capable of converting sunlight into electricity at around 40% efficiency


 * Energy final Add in a section about making a sealed billet or container, filled with either salt or synthetic

oil, which is heated with a FMA to 300degrees. A second container filled with oil is circulated through this sealed container to heat the oil to 80degrees C. Water is then finally circulated through the second container to heat for domestic usage.


 * Absorption chillers
 * Openfarmtech
 * SolarAcademicLinks,
 * Residential Heater
 * EskomPower ,
 * ElectricCar,
 * Solar Energy ,
 * SolarEnergy
 * Air Engine ,
 * Diy sites http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-technology/channel-cnc/

Ideas
Designate one residence to install parabolic troughs on the roof, with the adjacent homes receiving energy from the primary home. Synthetic oil is heated to 250C via the trough and stored as Thermal energy, Thermal storage in a container at the primary home. Lay a water pipe across boundary from adjacent home to Thermal storage heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is filled with oil heating up the circulating water to desired temperature and pumped back to adjacent house. Primary home could charge a fee below Eskom rates and still make a profit.

Setup a FMA by clamping it at the roof junction and supportive pillar. Trouble with this setup is significant risk of fire and burning the house down. A magnetometer in the horizontal plane and gyro for vertical plane must approximately position the Fresnel array should the sun hide behind the clouds and the optical sensors loose position. A look-up table for that time and day of the year would give the approximate position of sun.

In addition the gyro, magnetometer will prevent false signals from the optics positioning the FMA incorrectly. See Uav robotics for code and circuits on using magnetometers and gyro's.

Solar Patents
Solar patents Ideas for constructing frames for FMA.

CPV solar
Zenith Solar CPV cells on which is focused the sun with parabolic reflector

http://www.google.com/patents?id=-PK5AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=inassignee:zenith+inassignee:solar&hl=en&ei=x0RVTtK8AovGswbIzIEG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.zenithsolar.com/content.aspx?id=313 Patent documents a means of micro aligning each mirror in a Fresnel reflector setup

http://www.azurspace.com/ Provides concentrated CPV cells to the Zenith project

http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/ In partnership with Zenithsolar

Heat pipes
Heat pipes

Fresnel reflector
http://raw-solar.com/ Fresnel reflector design or FMA
 * Heliostat Mirrors Pending
 * Novatech solar
 * Mirror positioners,
 * International Automated systems
 * SoharaDotOrg This idea won't work, the Fresnel Mirror Array from SolarLinks is preferred.
 * Solar Notes
 * Energy notes2
 * Fresnel Lens construction Notes on making a large round frensel lens with smaller conic(triangle) shaped lenses. There is a patent that has four separate fresnel assemblies attached to one foundation somewhere under links.

Parabolic troughs

 * Sopogy trough Could hack patent.
 * Wims parabolic trough No patent
 * Matalon energy Use optical and temperature sensor to align trough. Uses foam blocks to construct trough. Innovative idea to HackPatents.

Solar cooking
also be filled with salt inside, which will keep it hot for cooking through the night.
 * SolarCooker
 * http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_box_cooker
 * Solar cooking Add section about using 4foot square steel block that is heated up with a Fresnel reflector array(SolarLinks). The steel block can
 * French university link somewhere, heats up synthetic oil with trough. Pump this 170degree hot oil into a sealed metal square 2x2ft. Place pot on the plate and boil water or cook food. An oven can be built out of sealed metal square and filled with synthetic oil from trough or FMA (fresnal array)

Solar videos

 * Solar videos

Solar research

 * fresnelMirror.jpg SolarLinks Updated 8 March 2011

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 * SolarLinks2
 * Solarfire

Reflective material
Commercial mirror like foil applied to surfaces to reflect sun with near mirror like quality.
 * Reflective Material

Stirling Engines
http://www.ve-ingenieure.de/stirlingshop.html Sells plans, kits for 500Watt engine.

http://www.ve-ingenieure.de/projekt_st05g_cnc_engl.html


 * StirlingEngines,
 * Yu Hao Long YHL corporation
 * Stirling Whispergen $20000 commercial 1Kwh or around 800watt
 * Stirling Sunmachine 3KwH Stirling engine commercially available for 27000 euro or about R270 000.
 * Stirling Motoren
 * Stirling Fette
 * Stirling Baxi Baxi Ecogen, piston that moves up and down between coils generating AC wave.
 * Stirling Genoa In commercial production 3KwH 14,000 Euros or about R140,000. Gamma type engine.
 * Stirling Infinia Around $30,000 3Kwh . Won't be easy to hack patent.
 * Stirling RTM
 * Stirling Energon
 * QalovisStirling,
 * Stirling cnc
 * Heat2power
 * Diy stirling
 * Stirling Steele
 * Stirling Jimdandy
 * Stirling Sunpower Sunpower used in Vehicle Auxiliary Power Units. Find out which vehicles, reverse engineer or HackPatents the unit.
 * Stirling academic
 * Stirling Sunpower Stirling coolers.
 * Building 5hp Stirling engine

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA113409&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf Military spec 218 pages

http://www.ve-ingenieure.de/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9xIXGB2vFU&feature=related

Seebeck effect
Seebeck effect

Heat pumps
Heat pumps

Steam Engines

 * Quasi turbine Possible scam, can't produce a single independent test of hooking it up to a dynamo to measure output/input power ratio. It seems steam engines are the only viable, proven technology at the moment that is mass producible.
 * Engines2 ,
 * Steam engine plans
 * Steam Engines3,
 * Flash Steam
 * SolarTurbine Turbines won't work, use steam engines because the steam droplets damages the blades of the turbine. Turbine needs dry steam to operate.

Thermal storage

 * MoltenSalt ,
 * Thermal storage
 * http://wims.unice.fr/xiao/solar/storage.html container filled with oil and beads

Wind energy

 * WindEnergy1,
 * WindEnergy2 ,

Batteries and Fuel cells

 * BatteryTech ,
 * FuelCell,
 * HydroElectricity ,
 * Residential water heating with Fresnel lens
 * ElectricityMines ,
 * Simulate large parabolic with Sohara design

Sort these liks

 * Solar and thermalDotcom
 * Ammonia engine generator

Other

 * ParabolicTrough,
 * AstronomyPositioning ,
 * LonnieJohnson ,
 * FresnelLens ,
 * Aora Solar,
 * Redrok solar links
 * Open Farm Tech,
 * Opensource ecology
 * Solar Tracking
 * Torrent Solar Construction plans on building a solar furnace
 * http://www.theanalogguy.com
 * www.southwest-solar.com evaporative cooling aircon


 * http://www.southwest-solar.com/productcatalog/item.nhtml?profile=productcatalog&UID=136 solar cooker


 * Absorption refrigerator