Hi CSP enthousiast!



I am working on several concepts for SCP, one of them is the parabolic trough which I want to promote thru the non profit www.parabolictrough.org website. It will use coated aluminium and be of a free design with parts custom manufactured. Let me know if you have suggestions of wish to participate in the development of the parts (which aim to make the collector as cheap as possible). Also please… Continue

You might wonder what such an old picture of such modern technology means. It demonstrates how easily technology is lost. It was taken at the dawn of the 'Oil Era', and becasue of oil, there it stayed..

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Many have designed parabolic trough collectors, from NREL to Scania to countless small enterprises. Yet there is not one generic design openly available, on a non profit basis, parts and design, to spur on the green revolution our planet will have to go through due to peak oil and the need to reduce international tensions.

One good example of an open des… Continue

An Industry Conference

CSP Today should be of great interest to many people, especially in the high solar resource countries. It seems to have become the meeting point for the bigger energy companies that see great benefit in building expensive solar plants for centralized e… Continue

Hi Building CSP members, there is news, several things:

1. A new website is started called www.solartrough.org and www.parabolictrough.org. It aims to make plans and parts available for construction of solartrough collectors. It has a forum as well. We hope to put up a generic (but good) open and closed design soon. Because we (hope to) service more people we can share investmen… Continue