concentrator Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:37:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Insolight Boldly Claim Record Solar Cell Efficiency https://www.greenoptimistic.com/insolight-solar-cell-record-efficiency/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/insolight-solar-cell-record-efficiency/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:37:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60596 Insolight, which became an official solar company in 2015, recently made the claim that its new solar panel designed for residential installations is ‘twice as efficient’ than the norm. How? It claims to have a solar energy conversion rate of 36.4 percent. 34.6 percent is pretty much double the conversion rates of popular solar cells. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/insolight-solar-cell-record-efficiency/feed/ 0 60596 How Solar Parabolic Dish Concentrators Work https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-solar-parabolic-dish-concentrators-work-20080225/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/how-solar-parabolic-dish-concentrators-work-20080225/#respond Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:35:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/25/how-solar-parabolic-dish-concentrators-work/ Parabolic dish concentrating systems use parabolic dish shaped mirrors to focus the incoming solar radiation onto a receiver that is positioned at the focal point of the dish, like it’s illustrated in the image below: The fluid in the receiver is heated to very high temperatures of about 750oC. This fluid is then used to […]

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