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Bogensberger, Burkhard

Inge Laing

Johannes Nikolaus Laing

William Arthur Parkyn, Jr

Karsten Andreas Laing

Nikolaus Johannes Laing

Birger J Laing

Oliver P Laing

Johanes L Laing

Andreas Hesse

Disclosed is a floating altazimuth-tracking array of point-focus lenses that concentrate direct sunlight on the upper ends of optical-homogenizer rods bonded to high-efficiency multi-junction photovoltaic cells. The cells are on heat sinks in altitude-tracking linear troughs holding multiple lens-rod-cell assemblies. Swiveling on horizontal axes, the troughs have their heat sinks always submerged in the water of a circular pond. Only knee-high al-together, the troughs and their floating frame rotate in the shallow pond for azimuth tracking. Closely packed floating platforms comprise solar electric farms with maximal land utilization.

Solar electricity generator

Platform for recovering solar energy

Platform for the utilization of solar power

Solar power plant consisting of elongated modules whose longitudinal axes lie in a plane parallel to the direction of the sun rays to be converted. These modules are covered by lenses which refract sun rays impinging under an oblique angle downwards and which comprise two groups of refracting portions mirror-symmetrically arranged along the zenithal line which portions converge the refracted, downwardly directed sun beams into wedges of rays. These wedges of rays run twice per day in a vertical plane and during the remaining sunshine hours move within a narrow angular interval either towards the sun or away from the sun. This angular motion results in a vertical movement of the focal line so that the focal line coincides only twice per day with the height of the strip type photovoltaic cells. To force all wedges of rays to impinge evenly distributed onto the photovoltaic cell, a secondary lens is arranged above the photovoltaic cells. The light incident surface and shape of this lens produces the desired effect.

Photovoltaic power plant

A fluid flow machine consisting of a stator, mounted underneath a hot water tank, and an armature-impeller unit arranged inside said hot water tank, being separated from said stator by a spherical, magnetically permeable separation wall, which generates a toroidal vortex inside the water tank. Said vortex conveys hot water from the upper region of the tank to its lower region until the whole tank is filled with water of a uniform temperature.

Destratifier for hot water tanks

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La Jolla, CA, United States of America

Inge Laing