new diagram.bmp The question im going to arks is what type of lenses should i use and what dimensions would it have to be to work efficiently. Also any other improvements i could make would be yourself

Edited October 12, 201015 yr by mattr888

The water level in the tube and the water-container would be at the same level... but then you can heat the water in the tube, and evaporate it to run a turbine.

It would work, yes.

 

Your lens should focus sunlight onto the tube. It does not have to be more concentrated than the tube (no need to focus it on a single point - just an area with the same width as the tube tube is enough).

 

You must now choose:

1. The power you like to get (expressed in Watts)

2. The surface area of sunlight that you need to focus on the tube (note: "insolation" is your keyword)... note: you cannot convert 100% of the sun's energy... You're lucky to convert 30%.

3. Find a way to focus all that light (it's probably a larger area than most cheap lenses can focus)

4. Realize that mirrors can work too! (Huzzah!)

5. Proceed to develop something very much similar to this: idea... only a little smaller.

 

Good luck!

thanks mate i will do some experimenting with mirrors and other type of lenses and all that. and i think thew water butt will be slightly lower than it is in the picture.

Your free keyword of today is parabolic reflector.

lol

thanks

anyone elce got any thing to say?

anyone elce got any thing to say?

 

 

Yeah, have fun

 

Yeah, have fun

 

 

 

 

 

yer i sore that lol

and i was going to get it off u tube as well