I've recently got into the idea of renewable energy and i'm exploring what opportunities there are. One idea i've come up with is using mirrors to focus the suns heat onto a section of the sea, this heat would be so intense that the seat water would evaporate off to form steam and this can then (smiler to how it happens with nuclear power) turn turbines and then in turn turn a generator to produce electricity.

 

This is just an idea, and i'm not sure if its been done before but is it a feasible concept?

 

Thanks

 

Charlie

the steam rises and goes where?

it would be beater to have a glass container filled with water and focus the sun on that

but i would assume that this has all the problems as any other form of solar

I've recently got into the idea of renewable energy and i'm exploring what opportunities there are. One idea i've come up with is using mirrors to focus the suns heat onto a section of the sea, this heat would be so intense that the seat water would evaporate off to form steam and this can then (smiler to how it happens with nuclear power) turn turbines and then in turn turn a generator to produce electricity.

 

This is just an idea, and i'm not sure if its been done before but is it a feasible concept?

 

yep, this is the principle of concentrating solar power plants (also known as solar towers, but there's a flat version as well).

 

some of them use the concentrated light to heat up a molten salt so it can be used as thermal resevoir(essentially a big battery) before heating the water into steam.