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Old 12-18-2016, 05:22 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by teepee0205 View Post
Why do you need a heat recovery process? Just like in a car engine that uses a radiator to dump heat, the Suncell design is to do the same. The commercially available CPV cells are already designed with heat rejection in their design because these solar farms that use them have the same problem with heat.
Heat recovery might be quite hard to fit into a mobile application such as a car, but it makes sense in stationary applications such as a powerplant since they're less weight-sensitive.
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