Many of us have seen solar power plants of this type, and making primitive versions of these mirror dishes was the goal for some of us, for example this case...
Some of this stuff would be very easy to copy or modify.
Keeping the energy thermal avoids a conversion step, and hence one area of inefficiency, especially as we use a lot of our energy for heating. There’s been some interesting progress on heat batteries which would pair well with a solar concentrator.
Keeping the energy thermal avoids a conversion step, and hence one area of inefficiency, especially as we use a lot of our energy for heating. There’s been some interesting progress on heat batteries which would pair well with a solar concentrator.