» Spencer Ahrens http://uniteddiversity.com Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:08:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Backyard Solar Dish Melts Steel http://uniteddiversity.com/backyard-solar-dish-melts-steel/ http://uniteddiversity.com/backyard-solar-dish-melts-steel/#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:12:55 +0000 josef
We’re all familiar with the vast solar thermal power stations in the desert that use mirrors to make steam to drive turbines. Giant solar thermal arrays are already making electricity in the desert in Spain and California. But what if we could have just one of these units in the backyard, just for our own use?

That’s what motivated a team of MIT students to find the way to make the cheapest solar power station out there. Mass produce it for the home user and market it under their own new start up RawSolar.

Sure, it melts steel. But even more practically for the home owner, it makes steam in a flash:

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We’re all familiar with the vast solar thermal power stations in the desert that use mirrors to make steam to drive turbines. Giant solar thermal arrays are already making electricity in the desert in Spain and California. But what if we could have just one of these units in the backyard, just for our own use?

That’s what motivated a team of MIT students to find the way to make the cheapest solar power station out there. Mass produce it for the home user and market it under their own new start up RawSolar.

Sure, it melts steel. But even more practically for the home owner, it makes steam in a flash:

Read more of this story »

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