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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2009
Fernando Ramon Martin-lopez, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Fernando Ramon Martin-Lopez, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Other;
Abstract
A multiplicity of Fresnel lenses are attached to tubular branches of a tree-like support structure. Fiber optic bundles are connected to the Fresnel lenses and routed inside the tubular branches and collected as a larger fiber optic bundle inside a main trunk structure to which each of the branches is connected. The larger fiber optic bundle may be connected to a remotely located power generating plant or other processing facility via a fiber optic transmission network. A domed solar energy collector includes an outer dome and one or more inner domes concentrically nested therewith, one or more Fresnel lenses being positioned on the hemispherical surface of each of the outer and inner domes. Each of the inner domes is sized and positioned such that its hemispherical surface lies on the focal point of the next larger dome to thereby multiply the solar energy focused through each of the domes to a collection area within the innermost dome. Solar energy is collected by either a fiber optic network or a photovoltaic panel positioned in the collection area.