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#26 2007-01-09 13:06:48
- SpaceNut
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Re: Automatic or Manual Transmission - Moon/Mars Rovers
A concentrator makes use of relatively inexpensive materials such as plastic lenses and metal housings to capture the solar energy shining on a fairly large area and focus that energy onto a smaller area, where the solar cell is.
Concentrator Solar Cell Receiver Test Kits
One of the ways to avoid damage caused by heat is to make as part of the cell a means to remove and convert the heat energy to power.
Quantum Dots Enables New Advances in Solar Cell Industry
Battery advances where in the Zinc oxide and now in the Lithium Ion cell types but they still are very expensive and have issues.
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#27 2007-01-09 13:13:40
- dreammaker
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Re: Automatic or Manual Transmission - Moon/Mars Rovers
not bad could work....
a little more out there thought but you could havea sterling dish mounted ontop of it, and only have the rover operating during the daylight lol
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