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#Solar Sunflower technology harnesses the power of 5, 000 suns The latest in solar power comes to us from Swiss inventors working for Airlight Energy, Dsolar (a subsidiary of Airlight),
It's called the Solar Sunflower, and like its namesake, it tracks the sun and cools itself by pumping water through its veins like a plant.
Aside from its aesthetically-pleasing design, the Solar Sunflower also makes use of some innovative technology.
the Solar Sunflower incorporates these technologies in a novel way that represents a few ingenious engineering breakthroughs.
According to Gianluca Ambrosetti, Airlight's head of research, the Solar Sunflower's reflectors concentrate the sun"to about 5, 000 suns."
and dealing with those high temperatures is how the Solar Sunflower really sets itself apart. Photovoltaic cells used by the Sunflower have a max operating temperature of around 105 degrees Celsius,
which is significantly less than the melting temperature of iron, let alone the heat of 5, 000 suns.
To counteract this, the Sunflower makes use of a hot water cooling system invented by the project's IBM collaborators.
The real obstacle to the implementation of the Solar Sunflower is its cost. Its gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells
At the very least, the Solar Sunflower adds to the list of highly-efficient alternatives to nonrenewables now available to consumers s
Palm oil-105g Soybean-103g Rapeseed-95g Sunflower-86g Palm oil with methane capture-83g Wheat (process fuel not specified)- 64g Wheat (as process fuel natural gas used in CHP)- 47g
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