Oct
17
2011
STEAM ENGINE 12KW GENERATOR Solar Mirror Array Death Ray
By Solar Expert
www.greenpowerscience.com This is the first video from our “Viewers Video” segment where we showcase GreenPowerScience inspired work or other work that offers great ideas in the Green Energy Field. Joe Carruth built this by himself and this is the third prototype of his design. The unit weighs 1.5 tons and is 12.5 ft x 14.5 ft of active collection area. He currently manually tracks the sun for testing and hopes to get some funding to bring this project to a self contained version that can be available for Alternative Power production.
Where exactly does one go about getting an actual steam engine in 2011?
Did he build that himself? Holy shit, I wanna build my own steam engine…
You know, if you superheated a semi-viscus liquid (some type of oil) with a significantly higher boiling point than water, placed a water reservoir on it to heat by Conduction/Convection, you could theoretically set up a situation in which you could maintain a temp over 100C 24/7 for sustainable solar power. The oil would be >100C the whole time, probably spiking up to around 200C mid-day, and would, itself, heat the water continuously.
Also, you have to take into account the efficiency of the steam engine. So even with a good evacuated tube collector setup…. you won’t achieve anywhere near the electrical output that you do have in thermal output. To automate it you’d need a water dosing pump that adds the exact amount to turn into steam with temp sensor on output. Hotter temp = more input water, etc. The stirling engine is a better bet but no affordable units out there yet.
The evacuated tube collectors I sell @ coastalsolar.ca produce just over 1700w in full sun for a 30tube unit. That’s about 6′x8′ area. So his overall collector area is 181sqft. Our collector has 48sqft so his is about 3.8X the size. Our evacuated tube units are extremely efficient and no tracker needed. In the same area our’s would produce just under 6.5kw. So pushing a 12kw generator assuming losses wouldn’t work on his setup.
@1BustedMyth
“But renewble energy does not work” I keep getting told!
Rest assured my friend. Renewable energy ideas never get old!
Tried contacting you Joe. Phone numbers I called are not active. Tried the SCOFENIX email, tried twitter. Can you please contact me DEEP at DJOSHI dot COM
“But renewble energy does not work” I keep getting told!
superb really awesome.
A 12 kW generator dosn’t mean it produce 12 kW of electric power.
Sun produce 1 kW by square meter. To get 12 kW you need at least 12 square meters.
Modern Steam engine efficiency: 40%. (clearly in this video it’s not a modern steam engine… ) the efficiency is between 6% and 20$.
All this to say that he need a pannel of 200 square meters or 2152.782 ft² to produce 12 kW.
joe i did not see a boiler feed pump to maintane contious operation
@Fik2010 In about 2 days.
@Armornone Welcome to california..Nimbyland!
This is 100 year old technology and we still are not allowed to convert over! Many think it is too expensive… ya! they are all still hand made (nice work!).
If the major corps wanted too, we would have about 500,000 sq miles of installation jobs…
Search “oil storm solar”
Nice Work! A great way to harness the free energy that we get from the sun on a daily basis!
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