Ultra-Lightweight, Affordable Solar Panel Technology uses 1/100 of Silicon in Conventional
Solimpeks Hybrid Solar Panel Raises PV Efficiency to 28 Percent
Transparent Solar Material Could Lead to Solar Windows
SunPower to use Solar Concentrators to Increase Solar Cells Efficiency
Three Layered Solar Panel by RSLE Claims Ultra-Efficiency
Kyocera Achieves World Record Solar Module Efficiency
Solar Panels that are Just Over a Dollar now available
Solar Panels to be Produced Below 70 Cents a Watt
MiaSole Thin-Film Solar Panel Review - Amazing 15.7% Efficiency
Cogenra Solar Concentrator uses PV - Thermal Cogeneration Technology
Amonix Concentrating Solar PV Cells achieve 39 Percent Efficiency
Innovalight Silicon Inks Boost Solar Cell Efficiency to Record-Breaking 19%
SolOptics Design Yields Up to 12.5% Increase in PV Panel Efficiency
Power Optimizers to Increase Output of Solar Panels
Do-It-Yourself Solar Panel Kit for the Budget-Minded
Soliant Energy Residential Solar Concentrators to bring down cost of Residential Solar
Soliant Energy of Monrovia, California is developing solar concentrator grids using perspex -- a form of plexiglas -- to allow homes to capture solar energy by concentrating sunlight onto photovoltaic (PV) devices. This is similar to PV devices found on large buildings, but unlike commercial models these residential solar concentrator grids will not have motors that track the sun and will be a fraction of the cost. The residential solar concentrator grids will have the ability to be mounted on roofs, walls or windows. Unlike simple solar panels, the ability of the grid to focus sunlight allows a single cell to reach 20 percent efficiency and potentially generate 200 watts per square meter.
The concentrators in the solar concentrator grid are funnel shaped, with an oval opening that admits the light to a PV device at the bottom of the reflective cone. Designed by Dr. Tapas Mallick of the University in Edinburgh, the Soliant Energy grids can be fitted to capture 75 percent of the sunlight falling on windows. Although it would make the room darker, the ratio can be adjusted as needed.
Mallick is experimenting with cheap polymers that could potentially capture heat directly from rooftop grids and further reduce the price of solar energy generation for residential customers.
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La struttura a " montatura equatoriale " è costituita da una paraboloide, a sezioni , allocato su un piedistallo di facile installazione su qualsiasi terreno; da un settore circolare concentrico, fisso al paraboloide stesso che scorre su delle guide modellate ad arco circolare per il puntuament di declinazione solare +-23°27'; da un settore circolare per il puntamento da est-ovest a 15° all'ora e viceversa a 250°h; due motoriduttori per asservire i due movimenti suddetti e un semplice sistema a micriprocessore. Detti settori circolari assicurano il paraboloide dalle vibrazioni causate dal vento. La struttura è di facile manutenzione e di gestione, anche dall'utente sprovveduto.
Le suddette rivendicazioni rendono il mio sisietma a " montatura equatoriale", competitivo rispetto:
-All'attuale sistema a " montatura altazimutale " a giostra
-vedi SES- Usa- che necessita di: complessa e costosa fondazione per la movimentazione azimutale, di difficilie gestionee e di un sofisticato sistema di puntamento col solae. E' soggetta a vibrazioni.
-Ai "concentratori parabolici lineari " che hanno scarsi rendimenti e basse temperature di processo.
Si resta in attesa di un cenno di risontro
Grazie
Giuseppe Farina
E.mail: [email protected]
website: farinagiuseppe.com
This report is mixing up two different technologies/products that were reported on in New Scientist. (The New Scientiest article was admittedly a little confusing.)
Soliant energy makes a rooftop solar concentrator which tracks, whereas Dr. Tapas is working on a way to use (fixed, I think) optics to collect solar energy falling on windows, as far as I can tell.