Solar thermal energy

by Karl H. Muench

Solar thermal is defined as the conversion of solar energy into usable heat energy

The incident on the surface radiation is worldwide average daily (based on 24 hours) is about 165 W / m? (with significant variations depending on latitude, altitude and weather). To use this source of energy, man has started to move closer to deal with the issue solar thermal (heat from solar radiation) and photovoltaic (electricity from the sun).
The entire incident on the surface energy is more than five thousand times greater than the energy needs of mankind, the potential is greater together than all other renewable energies.

History

Already in ancient times were used burn or concave mirror for concentrating sunlight. Thus, for example, and is the Olympic torch lit on fuel since antiquity mirrors.

Archimedes is said to have put the ships of the Romans, even over long distance solar-fire. With the help of mirrors, he should have deflected sunlight and concentrate on the attacking ships, so that entire fleets were destroyed. However, there are also serious doubts, although researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona have successfully ignited in 2005 with 127 small mirrors, a 30-meter model of a distant ship's side, after the trial had previously failed with two mirrors.
In the 18 Century invented the scientist Horace Benedict de Saussure, the forerunner of today's solar panels and the world's first patent for a simple heat collector for hot water in 1891 was awarded to the metal manufacturer Clarence M. Kemp, of Baltimore.

In the 18 Century invented the scientist Horace Benedict de Saussure, the forerunner of today's solar panels and the world's first patent for a simple heat collector for hot water in 1891 was awarded to the metal manufacturer Clarence M. Kemp, of Baltimore.

Our Services

Along with efficient solar systems in a family house sector, we have specialized in solutions in the property and settlements. Especially in buildings such as hotels, commercial buildings, industrial buildings and in the administration, an enormous amount of energy consumed, which causes expensive operating costs. Here, the consumption may be different. The user has a high cost in warm water, the other more in the heating or process heat. In most cases, however, consumes the most energy heating or industrial process heat, which is needed for the production of products. In the southern countries is usually not heated but cooled and thus the solar cooling comes into the race.

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