...type of explanation and design of optics could also be useful for other people when they make their solar reflectors. The equipment, laser level and paper etc only costs $20 or so and you can get ...on these designs. (they are troughs and dishes have more concentration and are probably more useful for solar cooking) so I make dishes. Please send the links on to your DIY friends if you are...

.... See http://testers.cpan.org/ -- Dear Brad McConahay, This is a computer-generated report for Ham-Reference-Solar-0.02 on perl 5.8.8 patch 34313, created by CPAN-Reporter-1.17. Thank you for ..." "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/00-load.........# Testing Ham::Reference::Solar 0.02, Perl 5.008008, /usr/perl5.8.8@34313/bin/perl5.8.8 ok t/pod-coverage....ok...

...A week or so ago there was a brief thread here about running emacs on a handheld phone/PDA. A side issue to this was the question of charging it. Well, I just found the solar panel-equipped backpack mentioned in that conversation. Find it and details about it at: <http://www.rewarestore.com/partner_grist.html> Enjoy. - -- The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the ...

...> >news:6093a7a1-af5b-43fc-b045-919e2406d9af@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com... Solar Concentrators 92%% efficiency developed. These are cheaper than ...fairly sure of is that, for example, if you put solar panels on your roof in Texas to run the AC,...the AC. Even larger scale installations like solar thermal involve that fundamental economic calculus; they could pretty ...

...>> news:6093a7a1-af5b-43fc-b045-919e2406d9af@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com... Solar Concentrators 92%% efficiency developed. These are cheaper than even ... sure of is that, for example, if you put solar panels on your roof in Texas to run the AC... run the AC. Even larger scale installations like solar thermal involve that fundamental economic calculus; they could pretty ...

... about 1%% for the biofuel path. Solar thermal has 20%% efficiency from sunlight...your stuff about electric cars. Also, solar thermal electricity (daytime) will be mostly...> coincides with top-power of solar thermal plants. The demand peak lags... increase use of wind and solar, some grid-storage will likely ... and 20X less efficient than solar thermal. That puts enormous cost ...

...> news:6093a7a1-af5b-43fc-b045-919e2406d9af@v1g2000pra.googlegroups.com... Solar Concentrators 92%% efficiency developed. These are cheaper than ... fairly sure of is that, for example, if you put solar panels on your roof in Texas to run the AC,... back to the grid. Even larger scale installations like solar thermal involve that fundamental economic calculus; they could pretty ...

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