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Engineering limitations
Mirrors are used to focus the sun on tubes to generate thermal heat. This would burn up a photo voltaic silicone cell that relies on photons only. They have magnified the light to basically turbocharge a photo cell but it was magnified a few times. This solar thermal is magnified hunderds of times to heat the heat exchangers. Besides when trying to combine technologies, neither of the solutions is cost effective or efficient if it is pulled off. You could have solar cells in another adjacent field but mixing them will not work. I have an idea that this puts out more megawatt per acre than solar cells so why bother.
Posted by: osreinstall   Posted on: 06/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Clever, and innovative. I hope it catches on!  HypnoToad72 | 06/07/07
Agreed  Boot_Agnostic | 06/08/07
A step in the right direction...  Linux User 147560 | 06/07/07
alternative sources  srobtjones@... | 06/08/07
Watch this movie... then you will have your answer...  Linux User 147560 | 06/08/07
Why cant they combine the two?  Been_Done_Before | 06/08/07
Engineering limitations  osreinstall | 06/08/07

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