Solar Power
Solar Parabolic Mirror
By Xah Lee. Date:
2018-12-30
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“5 meter radius mirror dish, tested by company Ripasso in the Kalahari desert.” [photo by Jeffrey Barbee. Source
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/13/could-this-be-the-worlds-most-efficient-solar-electricity-system
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Stirling Energy System's Solar dish. This is about 11 meters in diameter.
“Six dish Stirling Systems developed by Schlaich Bergermann und Partner of Stuttgart, Germany, in operation at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria in Spain. The three dishes in the foreground are second-generation systems. The systems produce 10 kW of power from a Solo Kleinmotoren engine.” — Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dish_Stirling_Systems_of_SBP_in_Spain.JPG
Array of solar disks of a power plant in Australia. Photo from Time Mag, ~2001.
solar dish at
Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center
, Israel.
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〔image source 2011-11-28 ❮http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_dish_at_Ben-Gurion_National_Solar_Energy_Center_in_Israel.jpg❯〕 [Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center]❮http://maps.google.com/maps?q=30.85878%2C34.780883❯
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