World Solar Challenge
Back in ‘94ish, I participated in the World Solar Challenge as part of a TAFE team. It was a very low cost, low tech entry, basically it was a fiberglass canoe shape body with two wheels at the front and one at the back. A big flat solar panel array above our heads which could [...]
Building On The Ridge or V Trough Solar Concentrator Array
A V trough solar concentrator array would look like the below, not shown is the solar tracker.
This particular array has a 60 degree concentrator, with the reflector surface the same length as half the width of a solar panel. The yellow lines represent the sun and show the sun reflecting to the middle of the [...]