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[Matt Tritt]

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Thre's no indication of them using a Stirling engine in the article and 
no place for one in the machine in the photos.

Matt T

Peter Parrish wrote:
My take on this company is that their approach is very speculative, not so
much as to the technology as to the application space. Does anyone know 
ifthey still plan to use a Stirling engine to take away the heat?

>- Peter 
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>Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D., President
>California Solar Engineering, Inc.
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>Matt T,
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>Put another nickel in your jar (for all the innovations that claim they have
>solved the PV cost issue), and move on with life. I took a look at the
>website a few weeks ago. As the article says, you wish him luck, but this is
>the wrong product for the wrong market. Try again with all your venture
>capital Mr. Bill Gross.
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>Keep in mind that as PV becomes popular, many very intelligent people will
>wisk by our industry proposing to save us from our moronic selves and
>provide PV that is so much cheaper. Mark my words, there will be a 99.9%
>failure rate with those folks. Hopefully, we will have some truly inventive
>folks come along that are not overwhelmed with their own intelligence that
>will help us get better, but I don't see people like this guy having a
>snowball's chance in heck being one of them.
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>Bill.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Tritt [mailto:solarone at charter.net] 
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>I was wondering how many of you have seen the latest Wired magazine with 
>the article on the "revolutionary" PV toy being hyped by Bill Gross (a 
>former successful dot comer) and his company, Energy Innovations. 
>Basically, the "Sunflower" is a mini solar plant with dual-axis 
>concentrating mirrors that focus on a small PV module mounted on a pole. 
>The article claims efficiencies of >20%, but the unit is 25 square feet 
>of mirrors feeding a single module of what appears to be a 3 sq. ft. 
>collector; all this for a claimed one kW output per solar day (in LA). 
>Wow. When you can do the same or better from a single 165 Watt PV 
>module, why bother?
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>Check it out  www.wired.com   and look for archived article 13.07
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>Matt T
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