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Continued from here.. I found the metal to be costly, and I had a concept of a building kit with ostly wooden parts, so I replaced the metal rods with strips of wood. First I had to make sure the uneven parabolic shapes could be connected in a reg…
December 9
beautiful,I will try this. i wonder how aluminum foil would perform.
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It is not that hard to build a parabolic trough collector, even not for me not being all that handy with tools. I got started a few days ago and am trying to just make one and figure out optimizations as I go. Step 1. Calculating the Parabolic Sh…
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Here is an example of how easy it can be to construct a parabolic mirror or SolarBowl. You can dig one out of the ground. The construction was actually a so called 'radar pit' for the dutch radio station Kootwijk. It was filled up in 1960, so it…
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Say you build a parabolic trough or other type of CSP installation, it's got tubes and after making so much cappuchino's you want to really utilize the steam for power, what can you find on the web. Surprisingly not very much. For some reason a stea…
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Hi Concentrated Solar Power Builders, Solar Bowl I visited a metal processing company yesterday in my quest for standard Soalr Bowl part. The goal being to make a kit for building a solar bowl (see above). The best thing would be to have a bended,…
November 11
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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 ma…
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A short post on one of the first people to apply concentrated solar power : Fank Shuman. In 1912 he build a parabolic trough plant in the deserto Egypt near Meadi. His plant produced a total of 55 hp/41 kW steam engine that in turn pumped 6000 ga…
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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 t…
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The Future of Solar Cooking

Below a steam cooker build in Auroville.



Types of solar cookers
There are several ways to use solar power for cooking. Here I won't go into the different designs but only the principle differences (imho).

1. Direct mirror concentrator
For third world aid there have been projects in which even simple aluminium foil on carboard was enough to concentrate sunlight several times and bring water to a boil. This design could best be made out of a rugged material like… Continue

Posted on December 23, 2009 at 8:30pm —

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Building CSP at COP15


Meeting Dr. R.K. Pachauri Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change The Copenhagen Climate Conference can't be deemed a succes. The US is opposing significant cuts and current targets leave an estimated temperature increa

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Posted on December 13, 2009 at 2:30pm —

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Building a Parabolic Through 2 (Update)

Continued from here..



I found the metal to be costly, and I had a concept of a building kit with costly wooden parts, so I replaced the metal rods with strips of wood.

First I had to make sure the uneven parabolic shapes could be connected in a regular way. That required ma… Continue

Posted on December 9, 2009 at 3:00pm —

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Building a Parabolic Through 1


(Mirror with coating still on)

It is not that hard to build a parabolic trough collector, even not for me not being all that handy with tools. I got started a few days ago and am trying to just make one and figure out optimizations as I go.

Step 1. Calculating the Parabolic Shape


You can use the formula Y=(X*X)/4*f where Y and X are re… Continue

Posted on December 4, 2009 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

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A Dug Out Parabolic Mirror, Solar Bowl

Here is an example of how easy it can be to construct a parabolic mirror or SolarBowl. You can dig one out of the ground.



The 30 meter diameter construction was actually a so called 'Radar pit' for the dutch radio station Kootwijk. It was filled up in 1960, so it is no longer there. To… Continue

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 4:00pm —

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At 5:59pm on October 15, 2009, Vipen Mahajan said…
Hi Climate Babe !,

Yes I am physically located in New Delhi, India. However I have a global presence thru the Internet. Skype ID is vmahajan, and I have Skype -In and Skype0out , 001-630-303-9881, with voicemail facilities. I use web conferncing, and eLearning Management Software, besides Cloud based ERP etc hosting .
Where are u located, and what r ur interests.

I am looking at solar from a manufacturing/distribution/education aspect, where I can integrate my computer, ERP, CRM and IT background with my passion for sustainable living, esp for rural areas and developing countries.
At 10:39pm on September 24, 2009, Rafael Capella said…
How would you distribute the cool air to the houses that are not nearby?

Rafael
At 6:22pm on September 24, 2009, Rafael Capella said…
En este momento seria principalmente para producir aire acondicionado para las casas en el development. Claro que lo ideal seria producir toda la nergia para un desarrollo de 300 residencias.
At 2:07pm on September 24, 2009, Rafael Capella said…
The idea will be for cooling a house or a future development of about 300 houses.
 
 
 

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