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This Ukrainian guy has been trying to develop his home brew solar focusing system to power homes on the cheap for the past 10+ years. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some of this stuff would be very easy to copy or modify.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Heat isn't waste. It's considered waste in a lot of situations because it's a byproduct that is sometimes difficult to get rid of, but that doesn't make it inherently useless.

Otherwise I agree that it's maybe not the most intuitive type of energy storage but if those large solar-thermal power plants use it to generate power throughout the night there's gotta be something to it. I imagine it's also something that scales well because the area grows slower than the volume.