Compound-Eye-Hexlens Covers for Solar-Ponds and Lagoons

A floating pond cover comprised of a plurality of floating hemispheres (Balls) packed in a closed hexagonal frame composed of polymer of uniform thickness, e.g., t1=1.52 mm (or 60 mils);

• but not limited to said value, composed of transparent, opaque or translucent plastics, base (Body) of same material of same thickness, described herein as a Compound-Eye-HEXLENS Pond Cover;
• wherein said lens and hexagonal base is of dimensions and airtightness to allow floatation of the assemblage to >50% buoyancy in a salt-gradient-solar-pond (SGSP), or other fluid-retention pond, the apparatus comprising:
• a hexagonal frame of equal-sides (Skirt) of height “H”-cm welded to two lattice planes of same polymer;
• one comprising a convex upper lattice-hemispheres-construct, wherein the plurality of hemispheres, or hemisphere-caps are all of equal radius of curvature, thickness and height above said Lattice-plane:
• “Compound-Eye-Lens” assembly facing upwards vertically, thence said assembly absorbing direct beam solar irradiance, and, separated by a height of “H” cm, a mirror-image copy of same ‘Compound-Eye-Lens” inverted and floating convex-side-inverted on the surface of said SGSP pond;
• a plurality of refracting transparent convex hemispheres, e.g., 19 (Compound Lenses) extending upward from a top horizontal x-y plane of a hexagon-shape floatation device (“Skirt”), wherein each of said convex lens centered convex-side up, on a central z-axis of said convex lens, wherein the thickness of said Lens material is same as that of said Skirt, such that incident near-ultraviolet, visible, and infrared rays reaching Earth's surface (A ranging from 290-400 nm, 400-700 nm, and 700-2450 nm, respectively) are refracted through the lens and body, into the saltwater, or concentrated seawater (Brine) stored in a salt-gradient-solar-pond (SGSP), wherein the photons impart energy to said Brine via intermolecular vibration of the salt ions—water solution, causing Brine temperatures to rise in stratified gradients of upper-convective (UCZ), middle-non-convective (NCZ), and lower convective (LCZ) zones of increasing temperatures, the LCZ being of highest salts-ions concentration and density, and accordingly of maximum TES capacity;
• the maximum diameters of plurality of the spherical balls are determined in accordance with said closed-hexagonal base-cell dimensions, and stability of the plurality of the completely deployed Compound HEXLENS floating liner system (Field) during anticipated local meteorologic conditions.