This is the Rawlemon Spherical Solar Energy Generator discovered by German architect André Broessel. This is 35% more efficient than current solar panels and is able to operate on cloudy days. It concentrates light by 10,000 times.
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more info:
http://themindunleashed.org/2013/12/glass-sphere-might-revolutionize-solar-power-earth.html
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Renewable power is energy that is produced from natural procedures that are
consistently refreshed. This includes sunshine, geothermal energy heat,
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wonder how much energy it took to mine, refine, melt, remform, grind,
polish, then transport that huge fucking ball of glass?
You sure it’s not a high-powered laser sentry tower?
Some hybrid of a prism tower and a Telsa coil?
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Really cool looking (and energy intensive) object). I imagine that it took
months for that giant glass sphere to anneal…
Do you really think that solar can power an industrial planet? Have you
done the math? It will take about 250,000 sq mi for it to power just HALF
of the expected population at just HALF the American standard!. It will
also take a lot more storage than… NUCLEAR. Get real, learn about and
promote the best nuclear reactor design for global deployment.
Do you really want our kids to suffer fossil fueled depletion into an
overheated biosphere? If not, promote nuclear, pure and simple!
Great invention hope it goes to mass production.
I bet for casting that large ball of glass you use more energy that this
can produce for it’s lifetime. Also we don’t want to close nuclear power
plants, as they make very clean energy. We want to close gas and coal power
plants. But guess what .. for backing up unreliable solar power, we
actually need more gas power plants ! Tricky right ?
What we need is more investment into cheaper and safer nuclear power, for
example thorium breeder reactors and other new technologies.
the regular solar panels as it is stable today are enough efficient and
cheap, i’m not saying what you do is in vain, but i believe that solar
technology needs RND in the materials that produse the energy and not more
robotics, there is no reason to add mechanical parts in to something like
pv which can work without any mechanicals
can u make a panel of 50% energy transform… and produce it with an enough
cheap way so the people can have it? then go ahead
If you do be careful because you may get kill
why not just make one stand below so it could rotate any way it wants
without any problem
Why an expensive glass sphere…why not just a simple mirror..?
I am concerned that too many panels will deplete the amount of solar heat
in the earth’s atmosphere causing a new ice age. That energy has to come
from somewhere and if we’re turning it into electrical power to run our
gadgets and our wasteful western lifestyle there may not be enough left
over to keep the planet warm.
It seems INCREDIBLY expensive for a 35% efficiency improvement. If the cost
isn’t LESS than the cost of 35% more solar cells why bother?
this isn’t new simple timing devices were used 40 yrs ago to follow/track
the sun
With this, solar road ways, wind farms etc, we may be able to completely
wipe out fossil fuels!! Stop talking about them and start actually building
them! Get them everywhere!
Expensive i guess.
RAWLEMON an optical solution for energy saving
It’s a magnifying glass so how is this more efficient?
yeah 10,000 times if you measure at the focal point. it still takes up a
lot of space and only harnesses the light of it’s profile. but with all
that said, the shape is revolutionary, more so than the power, because the
shape allows the sun to shine at any angle without having to adjust the
pitch and roll of the condenser.
LoL marbles on a solar panel do the same.
pet peeve here, maybe I’m a grammar a$$hat, but solar is not “renewable”
energy. There needs to be a cycle for something to be called renewed.
Unless we find a way to put matter back into the sun to be used as fuel for
further solar reactions and re-radiation, then there is no cycle, therefore
not “renewable”.
Many are oblivious to the fact there are currently many thousands of solar
powered cars on the road today. Ethanol is a solar fuel. Plants convert sun
light to sugars and starches which is made into ethanol fuel.
There is a basic logical fallacy here. If you take the solar energy
falling on a square meter of the earth and focus it on a smaller area you
have reduced the size of the solar cell required to collect the energy. But
you still need the square meter of sun light. It is only an efficiency
gain if the whole apparatus (square meter of solar cell versus small cell
and focusing apparatus) is cheaper or involves less resources than the
other.
I suspect that on this basis the square meter of solar cell wins over the
“ball” lens and solar cell.
I think too many of the folks commenting are missing the point, we need to
work together as a human interface to explore better solutions, people !
LISTEN we are killing our planet we must act now to reduce pollution,and
produce enough energy and food for humanity.To those who want to continue
using coal and nuclear energy,you must not live near where coal ash spills
in drinking water supplies and constant warning sirens of local nuclear
plants effect your daily life!!!!
There are other problem with the facts int he video too. By focusing the
light energy onto the solar panels the temperature is increased and the
efficiency decreases.
As the position of the sun changes, doesn’t the amount of energy hitting
the PV panel change? Seems to me it would be just as efficient to have
multiple solar panels pointing in different directions than one polished
sphere.
Why do they knock nuclear? It’s clean, and in the terms used in the video,
“renewable” (yes I know neither one is), but it’s 100% natural and doesn’t
pollute when recycled.
I would think he would want to compare it to coal, which is contributing to
global warming, global dimming, and his killed more people and polluted
more land than nuclear.