SATELLITE DISH CONVERSION Huge Parabolic Mirror Solar Power Reflective Film DIRECT TV SOLAR
by admin on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 | 13 Comments
This is a short video lining a parabolic satellite dish and a pattern for a parabolic shape. http://greenpowerscience.com/SHOPREFLECTIVEBUY.html
Duration : 0:4:39
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Dan, did you ever …
Dan, did you ever get this large parabolic mirror finished? It certainly would be almost dangerous to use. With part A and part B mirror, you could weld metals!
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Since …
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Since you made this post have you seen the sterling engines that they are driving small generators with. They seem to be doing pretty well. I can find the site if you are interested.
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I WONDER IF THIS …
I WONDER IF THIS WOULD FRY A SATTELITE
Dan, love your …
Dan, love your stuff. Just a note on safety though. I have a friend that did a lot of solar experiments in the early 80′s and he has some significant loss in vision because of damage done by looking at various solar experiments he was working on. I have seen you use goggles before (and assume you use them pretty regularly) but I didn’t see any in this video and I worry because I want you to keep up the great work.
could a peltier …
could a peltier cooler be used with one of these or would it burn up?
the airports gonna …
the airports gonna get at you. lol
There’s a very cool …
There’s a very cool iPhone app called Satellite Augmented Reality. It has a database of over 370 geo sats and lets you view where they are in the sky. It also calculates the azimuth and elevation angles for you based on your location. In addition, it lets you enter a virtual location in order to see what the satellite view would be in, say China, if you are in the US.
Actually, you place …
Actually, you place the steam generator ( boiler, coil, whatever )at the focal point of the dish connected by a flexible coupling ( stainless reinforces high pressure hose) then to you turbine or sterling engine. The “cost ” would be maintenance on the system, plus just a bit to power the tracking motors). If you live in a climate with enough clear sunny days, go for it, the payback may be long, but properly designed it will work.
Difficult. The …
Difficult. The parabolic dish needs to track the sun, and do to the nature of fresnel lenses I believe that this beam would be sent along the axis of the dish, right back toward the sun . therefore you would need a series of tracking mirrors to aim this beam to you stove ( As the dish is tracking the sun, the “aim” of this beam would be constantly moving)
What if, by using a …
What if, by using a fresnel lens, you channel the light just off the focal point into a straight beam. I was thinking of taking that beam down a solar chimney of a sort to use for indoor cooking. if the diameter of the parabolic mirror is 5m(16.4ft), can i then take that light channeled down, and split it into 4 parts and still have enough light to heat 4 stoves?(The stoves using either the solar cooker method or fresnel lenses reflected up onto a large pan). *the chimney = 5m height max.
I wish I could have …
I wish I could have that in my house greetings from Mexico City!
you wouldnt have to …
you wouldnt have to rig a way for the dishes to track the sun, the only moving part would be the steam engine and coil (generator).
death rays are the …
death rays are the furtherest thing from my mind. what i’m thking is, with reflective points, fixed… mounted in say a hill side, all focused at a single point, then all one would have to do would be to put a closed water source at that point also, then hook that up to a steam turbine, or even an old steam locomotive engine (piston), hooked to a generator and have a steady, virtualy free source of electricity.