Floating Solar Platform
OwnerNikolaus Johannes Laing, Inge Laing +1inventors
InventorsNikolaus Johannes Laing, Inge Laing, Andreas Hesse
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Abstract
This invention relates to a system for producing solar power, comprising a rotating, circular platform that produces solar power and rotates about a vertical axis. Said platform (5, 6, 7) is provided with a plurality of floating troughs (9, 90, 91) with photoelectric cells (187, 199) which are covered by concentrating lenses (92, 182, 192). The platform (5, 6, 7) is surrounded by a circular, floating ring (10, 36) which is held in place by a device that grips only one area of the circumference of said floating ring (10, 36).
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A system for producing solar power, consisting of a rotating, circular platform which produces solar power and rotates about a vertical axis, the platform (5, 6, 7) containing a plurality of floating troughs (9, 90, 91) having photoelectric cells (187, 199), which are covered by concentrating lenses (92, 182, 192), wherein the platform (5, 6, 7) is surrounded by a circular, floating ring (10, 36) which is held in place by an apparatus gripping only one region of its circumference.
A concentrator device, in particular for concentrating sun rays, comprising a concentrator lens and a photovoltaic cell, wherein concentration of the rays to more than 1000 suns results in the formation of a very small focal region (183, 197) which is incident on the entry side of a preferably square glass body (181) which is optically connected to the photovoltaic cell (187), the entry side (184) of the glass body (181) being more than 10 times larger than the cross section of the focal area.
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