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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
May. 18, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Aveek N. Chatterjee, Bangalore, IN;
Kota V. R. M. Murali, Bangalore, IN;
Ninad D. Sathaye, Pune, IN;
Rajesh Sathiyanarayanan, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method including installing solar pods at varying heights on a tower, where a size of each of the solar pods is inversely related its installation height on the tower, each of the solar pods including a transparent ovoid enclosure symmetrical about an axis, and a reflector and a solar cell both contained within the transparent ovoid enclosure, the solar cell positioned at a common focal point of the reflector such that substantially all light reflected by the reflector is directed at the solar cell.