Solar‐energy collector accepts diffused sunlight
AUG 01, 1974
DOI: 10.1063/1.3128800
Harvesting the sun’s bounty of energy is a nontrivial problem—the sun is a nonstationary and often a poorly concentrated source of energy. Another attempt to overcome these difficulties is resulting from a collaboration between workers at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. The project, with recently announced funding from the Atomic Energy Commission ($140 000), has reached the stage where prototype collectors have been constructed. These collectors do not need to be redirected during the day and can collect isotropic light more effectively than many earlier designs.
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