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Saracon Parabolic Trough: low-temp steam for cooking for 15 to 30 people.  Long parabolic trough designs parallel to ground have the advantage of not needing as frequent or as precise tracking adjustment compared to parabolic dishes (for cooking, once per hour instead of every 10 minutes).
Elianto in Italy and Ausra in Australia are using a very smart-looking design that is basically a parabolic trough with fresnel effect, but the receiver is kept stationary like a tower.  Only 1 axis needs to be turned to control all mirrors and they can be geared together so that only 1 motor is required.  Allows mirrors to stay close to ground.  Serious drawback: long focal length requires very accurate parabolic mirrors.  At 0:40, Elianto shows a detail of the receiver.
*http://www.ausramediaroom.com/
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkucHl4GgN8


*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJYeQHAvgTM&feature=related
Saracon Parabolic Trough: low-temp steam for cooking for 15 to 30 people. 
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJYeQHAvgTM#t=240
 
PRACTICA Foundation "Smart Tech Against Poverty" has a parabolic dish and parabolic trough design for producing steam to drive micro steam engines for pumping water:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwdEwHzGTA
*http://www.practica.org/services/r-d/thermal-solar-pumps/
 
Alterner Solar with a large steam solar collector:
*http://www.youtube.com/altenersolar#p/a/u/1/u42TFg2g4r4
 
Dr Reddy at IIT Madras with 2 Solar steam designs and has worked on optimizing the receivers:
*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGNFKKsPxoo
*http://www.ese.iitb.ac.in/activities/solarpower/iitmadras.pdf


Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative (CSPOSI):
Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative (CSPOSI):
*http://www.csposi.org/
*http://www.csposi.org/
The following two links are not directly about solar concentration for steam generation, but since there is not a generalized solar page yet, here they are:


The solar cooking wikia:
The solar cooking wikia:
*http://solarcooking.wikia.com/
*http://solarcooking.wikia.com/


DIY solar Site:
DIY solar Site:
*http://www.builditsolar.com/index.htm
=General Overview=
*[https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/solar/solar-thermal-power-plants.php An [[EIA]] Page Titled "Solar explained - Solar thermal power plants" ]


*http://www.builditsolar.com/index.htm
=Water Use=
*[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ente.202001135 A 2021 Paper Titled "Site Assessment for Wet and Dry Concentrated Solar Power Plant Integration Using an Analytical Hierarchy Process–Geographic Information System Approach: A Case Study in the Marrakesh-Safi Region" ]
*[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038092X14001273 A 2014 Study Titled "Dry cooling of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, an economic competitive option for the desert regions of the MENA region" ]
*[https://grist.org/solar-power/2011-08-04-when-picking-solar-power-options-its-the-water-stupid/ An Article by Grist Titled "Concentrated solar power plants are all wet
Concentrating solar has promised big additions to renewable energy production with the additional benefit of energy storage -- but there's a catch." ]
**This was the reason for me digging up all these links, i saw it in a discussion i had on PV vs Solar Thermal


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Latest revision as of 20:09, 10 May 2022

Elianto in Italy and Ausra in Australia are using a very smart-looking design that is basically a parabolic trough with fresnel effect, but the receiver is kept stationary like a tower. Only 1 axis needs to be turned to control all mirrors and they can be geared together so that only 1 motor is required. Allows mirrors to stay close to ground. Serious drawback: long focal length requires very accurate parabolic mirrors. At 0:40, Elianto shows a detail of the receiver.

Saracon Parabolic Trough: low-temp steam for cooking for 15 to 30 people.

PRACTICA Foundation "Smart Tech Against Poverty" has a parabolic dish and parabolic trough design for producing steam to drive micro steam engines for pumping water:

Alterner Solar with a large steam solar collector:

Dr Reddy at IIT Madras with 2 Solar steam designs and has worked on optimizing the receivers:

Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative (CSPOSI):

The solar cooking wikia:

DIY solar Site:

General Overview

  • An EIA Page Titled "Solar explained - Solar thermal power plants"

Water Use

Concentrating solar has promised big additions to renewable energy production with the additional benefit of energy storage -- but there's a catch." ]

    • This was the reason for me digging up all these links, i saw it in a discussion i had on PV vs Solar Thermal
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