captainwifi
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http://wims.unice.fr/xiao/solar/diy.html and http://wims.unice.fr/xiao/solar/index.html was written by a professor at a French University. Read everything and print out every PDF from his site, he has essentially solved our Eskom crises with thermal energy for cooking food, heating homes and providing warm water as well as boiling water for tee. The energy of the sun is stored in a thermal battery http://wims.unice.fr/xiao/solar/storage.html
Of interest is his assertion that Green energy will specifically not work on a large scale due to the cosine effect, complications in using lasers to align troughs etc., it can only function on a micro scale where you build the parabolics yourself or get skilled craftsmen to build and install the devices at a cost of 100euro per square meter
Of interest is his assertion that Green energy will specifically not work on a large scale due to the cosine effect, complications in using lasers to align troughs etc., it can only function on a micro scale where you build the parabolics yourself or get skilled craftsmen to build and install the devices at a cost of 100euro per square meter