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To: Lee'sGhost

Seems it would be easy to convert the energy into a home power source.

...until one considers the sun.

Not always available

not in the same place ever. One needs a tracking device.

One third of the time, is hidden.

the efficiency starts off not very good, and gets worse.

the device needs to be in space, following the sun 24 7 and then it would be prohibitively expensive, or on tracks at the equator, and the same scenario would apply. Not agin it, just saying.


35 posted on 02/03/2011 5:51:59 AM PST by wita
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To: wita

My father, an engineer says the following...

Hold your hand out in the Sun, does it burst into flames? NO. Because it really isn’t that intense.

Now soak your hand in 20 cents worth of gasoline and light a spark. That is intensely concentrated energy.


39 posted on 02/03/2011 5:56:08 AM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: wita

Yup....all good points. A couple times I was going to cook something in my solar oven. It was cloudy. Fail. :)

Like anything, there are advantages and disadvantages.


42 posted on 02/03/2011 6:01:36 AM PST by Claud
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To: wita

Really?! Why didn’t I think of that?

(rolling eyes)


68 posted on 02/03/2011 7:10:44 AM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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