Re: Satellite Dish Engery


"Mike" <jacko2001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I thought that has come to me tonight, the heat of the satellite dish
> when pointing dircetly at the sun is very high would it be possible to
> capture this energy and convert it into electrcity from the focal
> point. Thanks
>
>

I could well be talking out a my backside, but I'm pretty certain that the
principle of focusing the sun's rays from concave mirrors on to boilers to
generate electricity, has been something that's been done for donkey's
years.


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