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US 4,148,301 AGranted
Water-borne rotating solar collecting and storage systems
OwnerC. Brent Cluffinventor
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Abstract
A water-borne solar energy collecting and converting system employing an azimuth-tracking, floating platform equipped with reflectors and associated thermal collector tubes.
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An improved heat exchange means comprising:
- a floating platform,
- an array of juxtapositioned reflectors mounted on the top of said platform,
- each of said reflectors having a reflecting surface,
- means for mounting each of said reflectors in a parallel arrangement on said platform,
- at least one fluid-bearing tube mounted on said platform and extending longitudinally of said reflectors on said platform and approximately disposed with the axis of at least a portion of said tube in the focal zone of at least two of said reflectors, and
- means for moving said platform along said given path to orient and maintain said platform and said reflectors approximately in a plane containing the sun's center,
- whereby the reflection of the sun's rays are concentrated by at least two of said reflectors in a line image along said portions of said tube.
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