Thursday, March 10, 2011

Solar Energy Telescopeare are Efficient and Inexpensive as Well

A University of Arizona engineering team led by Roger Angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (PV) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells. This comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/W) without the “need for government subsidization.”
more:
http://www.ispyce.com/2011/03/solar-energy-telescopeare-are-efficient.html

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