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.

Created by Stirling Energy Systems in collaboration with Tessera Solar, the SunCatcher is a parabolic dish composed. ... concentrating an entire day of direct sunlight onto a single point called, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM Research and Airlight Energy have developed a solar concentration system that resembles a 10-meter-high sunflower. And it also produces clean, fresh water.

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 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 ...

(MENAFN- pr newswire) 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 ...

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 ...