Australian Solar Thermal ideas get to 2020 summit

[LMagic007]

[quote=SgtThursday;241805]

Originally Posted by LMagic007

... and if you have enough tanks and enough collector area you can store much more energy than would be provided for in calculations made thus far in this thread

Of course you can. But the site is clear on what it promises - all that from 7 tube banks.

No more oxygen to this. I'm out.

Sorry but do we know what each panel is rated at ? I couldn't see where they indicated that. How many tubes per panel ? I just didn't see this information on the site. I see they mention 7 panels. I see you noted the dimensions, and from that I can see how you derived the workings and I do agree it raises questions. I think the conversion efficiencies may reveal more information.

[SgtThursday]

They also give the tube bank area as 2m * 2.4 m. The aperture area of the tubes must therefore be less than this. I have used the gross area which is yet another "benefit of the doubt" assumption.

[LMagic007]

I certainly think it might be worth getting to the bottom of and I agree that on the surface, a number of claims don't seem to compute.