Not solar panels – solar *cones*. That spin to keep cool.
Entered By: grant on January 31, 2013
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Grist gives hope for affordable renewable energy from the engineers who’ve discovered that cones can make solar power cheaper than coal:
The company is called V3Solar (formerly Solarphasec) and its product, the Spin Cell, ingeniously solves two big problems facing solar PV.
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The conical shape catches the sun over the course of its entire arc through the sky, along every axis. It’s built-in tracking.
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The Spin Cell concentrates sunlight on plain old (cheap) silicon PV, but keeps it cool by spinning it.
It’s just so damn clever.
Design. Score one for design.
Tags: engineering
