Public Policy and Solar Thermal Energy
For over 100 years the world has taken for granted always more cheap energy of oil, coal and natural gas. To gain access and control these energy resources has been a central aspect of many wars in the...
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Solar Fire Design Wood fires have become popular because they are 1. Simple 2. Can be built locally and 3. Can reach the high temperatures needed to perform most thermal energy tasks. For solar...
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Mirror Setting Jig CAD Parametric CAD of the mirror setting device, DXF and STL. Meaning easily change any dimension to the jig and all dependent dimensions will recalculate. - About
View ArticlePre-Project CAD model now available!
It's a time for rapid advancement here at Solar Fire while we near the completion of the complete Simulation, Optimization and Parametric CAD suite of software. Currently the software as is can be...
View ArticleMore Stirling Videos
Swee Technologies have uploaded more videos of their demonstration Stirling unit. We wait in suspense for a 5 HP model their working on, which you can pre-order I believe. In the mean-time enjoy. Also,...
View ArticleCNC Solar Fire - Break Through
We then extract the profile of the row for CNC laser cutting. The cost is extremely low as laser cutting in India can be as low as 60 Rupees per meter, the materials just basic steel or aluminum and...
View ArticleSave world for 3 Trillion
What scale are we talking about if we want to provide a large majority of the worlds energy with Solar Concentration? - Ideas
View ArticleOpenPower Nepal at Maya Universe Academy
Below you can see the framework. Upon the site assessment it will be deicided which modules to buid. It can be seen that the steam engine approach opens up many possibilities for electricity generation...
View ArticleGoogle Grupo Espanol
Por favor únase a este grupo y pregunte más de concentradores de energía solar desarrolladas por Solar Fire. Seriamos felices de dar entrenamiento sobre, ayudar a diseñar, o construir estos...
View ArticleTri-rod rows for DIY
Open Power Nepal is getting ready to start building. So in order to support their effort we'll be helping them with the design of their DIY build. To reduce welding and increase intuitiveness I had the...
View ArticleHow can Solar Fire scale?
Small facets mean easy scalability The individual facets, usually mirrors, on a Solar Fire concentrator are of a relatively small modular design. This makes handling and setting the facets easily...
View ArticleWhy is high temperature a good thing?
In solar concentration, the higher the concentration factor the hotter the focal point. When the focal point is hotter this means two things: Any application and be more efficient. A wider range of...
View ArticleLaunching campaing to Open Source SFBamb
Open Power Nepal is getting ready to start a build in Bamboo as much as possible. We're calling it Solar Fire Bamboo — or simply SFBamb! They've already raised funds for the material, but require some...
View ArticleWho we are?
Eerik Wissenz Eva Wissenz Eerik Wissenz founded www.solarfire.org in 2007 and SiSustainable in 2009 with Eva. SiSustainable is a small web, programing and editing agency which also maintains this...
View ArticleLicenses
All licenses for products are single user (cannot redistribute, resell documents or represented machines). Contact us for other license requirements: developer, reseller, producer etc. Generally for...
View ArticleOpen business model
Here is our Solar Fire Open Humanitarian Business Model Why a business? The Solar Fire goal is to create cost-effective solar concentration. For this we have found a non-profit structure is not so...
View ArticleHistory & Map
SolarFire.org was created in 2007 to make widely available the information around the Solar Fire technology. Originated by Fraser Symington in Canada, principally developed in Mexico by a team led by...
View ArticleFrench Translation of the site
We are currently working on solutions to finance an accurate translation of the site in French (and probably also Spanish). Since 2007, I've translated all the material for free but now Solar Fire is...
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