The review highlighted several concentrator models, such as parabolic dish collectors, compound parabolic collectors, and the extremely concentrated solar energy delivery system (ECoSEnDS).

IBM Research and Swiss-based Airlight Energy have created a solar concentrator that looks like a giant sunflower and can produce 20kW of power per day, along with clean water and hot or cool air.

Cooling a supercomputer can provide clues on how to make solar power cheap, says IBM. Researchers envision giant concentrators, built with low-cost materials, that produce electricity and heat for ...

The Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund has awarded a $340,000 grant to Solarflux Energy Technologies Inc. in Bern Township, which has developed a solar dish concentrator that, officials said ...

IBM and its partners used a solar concentrator dish to shine light on a thin array of highly efficient triple-junction solar cells, which produce electricity from sunlight. By concentrating the light ...

Q&A: Solensphere looks to make solar power cheaper and more reliable by Denis Du Bois on August 13, 2012 at 9:18 am August 13, 2012 at 10:14 am Share Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

It’s not exactly a solar panel. It’s more like a solar dish. And not only does it generate electricity, it makes water, too. Researchers at companies and universities in Switzerland are ...

The improved design of the FOCUS centers on design-for-manufacturing improvements and encompasses all aspects of the FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator with particular emphasis on the parabolic ...

The LRESE parabolic dish: the solar reactor converts solar energy to hydrogen with an efficiency of more than 20%, producing around 0.5 kg of "green" hydrogen per day. (Courtesy: LRESE EPFL) A new ...

The hybrid system uses concentrated solar power (CSP) from a parabolic dish to drive the endothermic steam-methane reforming (SMR) reaction (see Equation 1) in a reactor mounted at the focal point ...

With an improved design for volume manufacturing, the updated Solarflux FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator has commenced field trials to demonstrate it's solar-to-thermal conversion efficiency and ...