Wired [RE-wrenches]

[Jim Duncan]

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This same guy had a big writeup in Fast Company magazine 3 or 4 issues 
back. I laughed as I read it and proptly responded, sort of indignantly, 
with a letter to the editor. I said something like, do you think no one 
else has ever thought of concentrating sunlight onto PV? It works in 
deep space where it's super-cold but not on this planet. 
They printed it the next month. 
Gross has sponsors with deep pockets and it appears he would never admit 
he was wrong. I just hope that the public doesn't get bilked by this 
guy. The industry doesn't need another black eye...
Jim Duncan
North Texas Renewable Energy Inc
Fort Worth, Texas

Matt Tritt wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> Check it out  www.wired.com   and look for archived article 13.07
> 
> Matt T
> 

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