"it can store that heat energy and so you can cook your food at night"
Super Cool Fuel Free Solar Grill Can Cook Food In The Dark!
The Wilson Solar Grill can not only cook your food when the sun is out during the day, but it can store that heat energy and so you can cook your food at night. How you ask? The solar grill uses a Fresnel lens to heat Lithium Nitrate. (Lithium nitrate “is the lithium salt of nitric acid. It is made by reacting lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide with nitric acid.“) ~Wikipedia
It will store the heat energy for up to 25 hours released as a convective heat at temperatures of 450 degrees F. This solar cooker technology MIT professor David Wilson and has great potential for cooking and other uses. Technically, you could store the heat energy and heat your home, your water, and probably generate electricity as well. Heat is after all energy, and energy can be converted to electricity. All you need is heat, and this could provide it.
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This is not just a grill. Many people will look at this and see a grill and say “COOL!” while not seeing the expanded practical applications for home energy and heating usage.
In my opinion this is a life changing invention for millions of people. It’s not often you see truly innovative world changing products.
This one will change the world.
UPDATE: This is a CONCEPT product. It’s based on real technology and science. The Sun is a powerful source of energy, and capturing that energy with fresnel lenses and storing the heat energy is possible because it’s already been done.
We apologize for not making it clear in the article that this is a concept product.
Please see the reference links below.
Thermal Energy Storage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_energy_storage
World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant With Storage Comes Online
Read more at http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/14/worlds-largest-solar-thermal-plant-storage-comes-online/#DpEGdPFV1T7sOKBt.99
A huge solar farm with molten salt storage is ready to go live in Arizona
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names are coincidence... this is very interestng in termes of "mineral power storage?"
found this in a very interesting site
source:
https://offgridworld.com/super-cool-fuel-free-solar-grill-can-cook-food-in-the-dark/
in the same site:
build a Fresnel solar cooker
https://offgridworld.com/build-a-fresnel-lens-solar-cooker-for-free/
you can learn how to make an usb solar phone charger!:
https://offgridworld.com/diy-solar-projects-part-4-solar-phone-charger-in-an-altoids-tin/
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Yeah, the links up there cheetah. Thank you :)
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upvote all the ones on solar power for a better world thanks!
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I am a big supporter of solar cooking and this NGO who is promoting it
http://www.boliviainti-sudsoleil.org/
Lithium Nitrate ! whaouou ! what about Na Cl ? cheaper, safer ?
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so do I!
great site there is job offers in it also! cool!
that's what they call molten salt!?
the fir's ones I have seen really used that tech!
we produce salt here
!
and I live close to the sea!
I can use sea water directly!
eheheh muchas gracias!
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Na Cl
I saw in a solar refrigerator...
It must be great in circulation since it must keep the water fluid from catching algae and accumulating dirt but do you think it will also work in storing or even in cooking or power production?! probably will work fine with a good well insulated accumulator right !? ;)
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Shared this to friends on FB. I'm an off-grid(er) and work with many people in developing countries. (I.E. 3rd World - as IF we have three -One world Project)
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thanks I'm already following tell us more @hexdek16!
three -One world Project would be interesting
check my new post! ;)
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Call me a doubting Thomas... but as someone who has played with solar for a while, there is NO way that a collector that size could gather enough energy to cook real time, let alone save it for later. The surface area for cooking is about the same as the collection area... so reason would dictate that the energy available for cooking would be no more than just leaving the food out in the direct sunlight. Pipe dreams are fun, but this makes about as much sense as putting a wind generator on top of your car to power the wheels. I have a solar oven, and it works well, but takes all day to cook a couple pans of food. A grill is a completely different animal.
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