Cheap solar power from MIT


Matt Ritter explains how the MIT solar dish works. Video / Patrick Gillooly, MIT, via MIT TechTV

19 Responses to “Cheap solar power from MIT”

  • tooosweeet:

    That’s kind of a big problem… you need to constantly aim the device or it doesn’t work. How much energy does it take to constantly move that thing?

  • jryan1971:

    This is so cool. I want to invest in this.

  • zapwow:

    Well done. Looks like a more robust version of “The Light Sharpener” by cockeyed

  • greenchicgeek:

    Cool! Thanks for sharing the info!

  • ikekll:

    MIT opens new ‘window’ on solar energy
    Cost effective devices expected on market soon
    July 10, 2008
    MIT engineers report…July 11 issue of Science, involves the creation of a novel “solar concentrator.” “Light is collected over a large area [like a window] and gathered, or concentrated, at the edges,” explains Marc Baldo discusses MIT’s solar concentrator…Because the system is simple to manufacture…Mapel, Currie and Goffri are starting a company…”

  • ikekll:

    SHEC Labs Claims to Have World’s Most Efficient Solar Thermal Tech
    July 12
    By focusing the concentrated rays into the aperture of a highly-reflective, elongated tube, by the time the light bounces back out, it has gradually dumped 95% of its heat into the tube, which can then be put to work.

  • farzitou2000:

    thank you, you are the real heroes, but those bunch of humans celebrate instead stars, singers, and others “heroes”

  • 1integrity:

    smart to use God’s Gift of Light Power in HIS Sun to give us other sources for benefits to mankind.

  • TylerXKJ:

    SCIENCE!

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