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The Total Spectrum Solar Concentrator concept first concentrates the solar energy via parabolic reflectors, then splits the light through a prism to focus the wavelengths onto solar collectors optimized for a given spectrum.

Note: The Email and Phone number information is incorrect on the website.

Table of contents

1 Illustration

2 Official Websites

2.1 United Innovations, Inc

3 Comments

4 NEC Commentary

4.1 United Innovations has done it
4.2 Marginal Gain

5 Contact

5.1 Mr. Mambo
5.2 United Innovations, Inc.

6 See also

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Illustration

The following is an illustration.

enlargement here (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a9/Energy.png)

Mr. Mambo is the creator of this illustration and declares it part of public domain.

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Official Websites

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United Innovations, Inc

http://unitedinnovations.com/ - Aims to achieve the world's highest solar-to-electric conversion efficiency at lowest cost. (Most of the website is under construction.)

Sample images from PowerPoint:

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Comments

See Discussion page

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NEC Commentary

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United Innovations has done it

On June 6, 2006, New Energy Congress member, Greg Watson, gave the following input:

United Innovations has done it. Working model gets around 35% efficiency. Simple 3Js do the same job at less cost.

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Marginal Gain

On June 6, 2006, New Energy Congress member, Robert Indech, PE gave the following input:

This concept is an obvious extension of known methods to concentrate and separate light. The first obvious flaw is that the prism would be bombarded with very high intensity infrared radiation, probably melting it within seconds.

Further, although existant solar cells are optimized for particular wavelengths, that does not mean that they do not respond to the non-optimized wavelengths of incident light.

The gain in efficiency would be marginal at best.

Not top 100.

Regarding United Innovations' approach, Mr. Indech said:

Same overall effect, but not quite the same configuration as the concept. I am well aware of the technology. Also, the dichroic filters used would suffer the same heating problem as the prism in the concept unit.

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