Randy's Solar Collector Project

Randy's Solar Collector Project

Randy Childers has developed a system for collecting solar energy for functional and practical use. 

 
It uses a compound parabolic trough that focuses light on a vacuum collection tube.  A plumbing system (built from off-the-shelf parts at the hardware store) carries water into and back out of the tube.
 
The more speculative aspect of the demo involves what can be done with this, including pre-heating water for domestic use, home heating, and DC power generation using Peltier junctions.
 

science project

we are doing a project at school and i wanted to know if you will help we are building a solar collector

 

thank you

Courtney freeman