Array uses low-cost materials and heavy construction methods to make collection and storage of solar energy economical on large scale required for commercial operation. Series of long trenches are dug side by side over an area large in comparison to heat diffusivity of soil.
"Solar ponds"
NASA Tech Briefs ; 2 , 3
1977-11-01
Miscellaneous
No indication
English
NTRS | 1984
|NTRS | 1985
|Stable Stratification for Solar Ponds
NTRS | 1982
|Performance of Solar Ponds with Sloping Walls
AIAA | 1987
|Solar Drying of Coal Wastes from Slurry Ponds
AIAA | 1981
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