It looks like a giant, glass marble. But this globe is no game. It's a sun-tracking, solar energy concentrator created by Barcelona-based architects Rawlemon and, according to the designers, is able to collect not just sunlight but moonlight as well.
The weatherproof sphere is designed to rotate and follow the sun across the sky. It's so sensitive to light that at night, it can even harvest moonlight and convert it into electricity.
Andre Rawlemon, the architect and designer, says his spherical, sun-tracking glass globe is able to concentrate sunlight and moonlight up to 10,000 times and that the system is 35 percent more efficient than photovoltaic designs that track the sun. One of Rawlemon's idea is to build these globes into the exterior walls of buildings and use them to generate electricity. For other uses and beautiful images of the globes, click here.
via Design Boom and Inhabitat
This is awesome! Can you imagine all homes/buisinesses of the future having these marbles on top of them generating free energy for all!
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ReplyDeleteGreat Idea. If it were a true sphere, it would not need to track, but it looks like it is two hemispheres attached. Are these commercially available?
ReplyDeleteIt would take roughly 2,700 years of exposure to the moon to harness the same amount of energy as 1 day of exposure to the sun. That alone makes everything else in the article suspect.
ReplyDeleteWow.Now that is a new breakthrough for Solar Panel powered homes,I'm sure home solarusers will want this.
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