Solar Water Heater Steam Parabolic Mirror Trough

October 31st, 2009 | by cmotel |

This is the first test of the trough in action.

  1. 25 Responses to “Solar Water Heater Steam Parabolic Mirror Trough”

  2. By jazz61021 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Inline with the water heater suggestion from superbee1970, use a PV circulating pump, or engineer gravity feed without any active pumping to heat a water tank, radiant heating flooring, or a geothermal vault mass, or radiant heated mass wall.

  3. By yusufer5000 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    that is pretty great, but man, you hurt on nearly every video you put up.

  4. By Mzinterested1 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Very interesting!

  5. By Hopefl1 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Cool. The curve is for sun movement right?

  6. By GREENPOWERSCIENCE on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    We are working on a video for solar panels due by the end of the week:-) She is in it.

  7. By 599891 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    You rig that baby up right and you could make a lot of fresh water from salt water. You should always include the “queen of green” in your video’s

  8. By JULYINJULY on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    You are having way too much fun now:-) Wow that is some steam. This HD stuff is AMAZING. Great work.

  9. By danz409 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    hope that lizzard dosn’t find its way up there..

  10. By dmontoya699 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    This is awesome. On a large scale this could work like Geothermal water heating. Try testing this in a snowstorm and see if the sun’s concentrated rays could still heat the water.

  11. By hoser4 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Let’s see this hooked up to your Tesla turbine experiment to see what kind of useful motive power you get from it.

  12. By superbee1970 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Awesome, 1st thing I thought of is that it would make some OUT OF THIS WORLD ESPRESSO’s!! YUMMY!

    Woudl ike to see this thing in a loop to a water heater and see how long and how hot it can make a full sized water heater full of hot water… Coffee at Star butts is at 160 degrees when they give it to ya n that’ll burn your tongue! GREAT vid!

  13. By triforcelink on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Dan, you should put all these mini projects into a big project, set up a whole water heating system for your house :D i would love to watch something like that!

  14. By lvecsey on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Do you think a project like this would work for a 12 story NYC apartment complex? Perhaps you could be a remote consultant of sorts, and have the project go through stages where it is first approved by the Co-Op board, then a section of the roof is reserved (with video documentary), and so on.

    Maybe you have some other ideas too. I think capturing over-the-air HDTV is a cool idea too but who knows, maybe there are capitalist forces keeping the triple-play broadband contracts going.

  15. By Demoman42 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    so now try to connect steam engine to it :) and show us results! Great Job Btw…

  16. By UKBB on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    I was thinking of putting an evacuated glass tube around the pipe.

  17. By godsend420 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    could you make a steam room using ur hurricane shelter u showed in a different vid w/ this and several pipes j/w cuz im getting sick and have heard the term sweat it out i could be way off

    any who instant free hot water would be good for a pool who doesnt like a pool party 5*

  18. By 8DoverNJ on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    This definitely shows the enormous potential of this type of solar technology. Great job, keep them coming! Cheers!

  19. By tukysman on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    CAn you make electricity with that steam!!!?????

  20. By insAneTunA on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    WOW that is a lot of heat. I can’t wait to see more experiments with this one.

    Awesome job Dan. 5 *

    Greets from the Netherlands, iT

  21. By andruha11234 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    steam cannon!

  22. By joelito101 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Right away it made me think of a steam engine.

  23. By madjimms on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    As always, 5 stars for cool science & a cool video!

  24. By motters2001 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    I suppose the next thing would be to add some mechanism to allow the trough to track the sun.

  25. By web4deb on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    Back in the 70’s, my neighbor had one of these on their roof to heat their domestic water. It was tied to a motor so it could track the sun rising/falling. It’s a bit easier to track with these than a dish…. Nice job!

  26. By CTOL1 on Oct 31, 2009 | Reply

    WOOT The “Mad” scientist is rock’n and a roll’n

    Awesome man your a loose cannon on the deck of the ship to new adventurers in green power

    In this case that is a good thing ! ! !

    Keep these videos coming much appreciated

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