How to invent a new solar energy method that is cheaper than thermal and nuclear power plants

Similar concave mirrors are capable of focusing solar radiation well in this way, and we can produce electricity if this place is the location of a small solar panel, or a Stirling engine, or we use this 3rd option where a mirror dish focuses solar radiation onto a receiver, inside which the radiation is converted into thermal energy that produces steam for a turbine. Solar electricity from this turbine can be cheaper than electricity from thermal and nuclear power plants and better than from solar panels because the turbine uses heat storages which provide opportunities to generate electricity at night, on non-sunny days, and in non-sunny winter just as well as in summer, and I will describe these heat storages in 5 minutes. Now I remind you that a mirror dish should rotate from morning to evening according to the movement of the sun across the sky, but this video will show you a different method where a mirror dish is motionless and does not require such rotations from morning to evening. I did a lot of experimental testing of our new method with a variety of mirror types, which will be described in more detail in 6 minutes. Let you come up with the idea of our new method yourself, and the following experiment with this concave mirror will help you invent this method yourself. This mirror will be motionless from morning to evening, the west-east line is here, and the mirror creates this spot of solar radiation on the white screen. Now it is morning, and these are points in time during one day. You can see that the spot goes along this horizontal line from morning to evening. Therefore you understand that our receiver must move approximately in such a way that the spot from our concave mirror is inside the receiver all day long. The following experiment will help you ensure that everything will work well, and this motionless mirror creates this spot on the white screen, which moves in exactly the same way as our receiver should move during one day. We see that the spot is inside the white screen from morning to evening. Of course, you will object that the sun is low on the horizon in the winter months, while the summer sun is high. That is why you come to understand that the mirror should be almost vertical around the winter solstice, but after that we have to change its vertical angle several times, until this position which is required around the summer solstice. After this, we change the position of the mirror several more times during the next 6 months. Now I am showing how I change the vertical angle of the mirrors on my solar station, but perhaps more southern geographical latitudes will require changes in this structure. Thus, these 2 features distinguish our mirror dishes from those more expensive devices which must rotate from morning to evening. In addition, we must distinguish our mirror dishes from this class of devices where the receivers are located separately from the mirrors, and from this class where heavy mirrors are motionless all year round, and I plan to describe these 2 classes in my future videos. Let’s use the idea of our motionless mirrors to invent a new solar power plant which will collect solar energy from an area of 100 to produce as much electricity as a nuclear reactor. First of all, you understand that our power plant will consist of millions of concave mirrors which must form long rows. We also understand that every concave mirror must have a similar receiver, and now I am showing a variety of receivers for heating liquids with solar radiation from mirror dishes. This is one of my receivers, and you can notice that the height of this receiver is several times greater than its width. Of course, we must have a mechanism to move dozens of receivers, and perhaps this blogger’s solutions will help us. He solved a similar problem of simultaneously moving his mirrors using this mechanism, a description of which can be found on his YouTube channel.
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