Solar Turbine Development

Introduction

This is a project page for deploying the Solar Turbine at Factor e Farm - with physical implementation starting in August, 2008. We are gathering a team and preparing designs and materials for that time.

Team

The team, or at least as many members as possible, will assemble at Factor e Farm in August.

1. Marcin and Brittany - Factor e Farm site preparation
2. Stuart in Canada - carpentry skills
3. Elliot in California - physics Bachelor's, Industrial Swadeshi interests, steam cycle flow design
4. Dan Granett, California - past prototype of Tesla turbine
5. Jamie, Maryland - solar turbine fabrication enterprise interests
6. Mel and Chris, Massachusetts - MIT OLPC group and off-grid energy interests
7. Lawrence, North Carolina - fabrication procedure for Tesla Turbine
8. Vinay, Iceland - Project Elder
9. Smari, Icaland - Iceland Fab Lab developer, Digital Fabrication

Existing Work

System integration for the solar turbine is described here using the open source technology pattern language. The information on the turbine itself is here, and the design information for the solar concentrators is here.

Preparatory Work

Work that needs to be done prior to groundbreaking in August:

1. Design drawings for the concentrator array, building on the past work in Solar Concentrators