Parabolic reflectors for solar applications are nice stuff, and making your own is a great project in itself. One of the easiest ways we have seen is that of [GREENPOWERSCIENCE], who uses nothing more ...

One of the problems facing any solar power installation comes in storing enough power for high-intensity operations such as cooking. The high-tech and expensive way involves battery banks and ...

Borrowing from modern telescope design, researchers have proposed a way to concentrate sunlight to ramp up laser efficiency. Legend tells of Greek engineer and inventor Archimedes using parabolic ...

This parabolic mirror isn’t quite as strong as the enormous mirrors on the world’s largest telescope but it can still be used for heating, cooking, and casually turning wood black and smokey. Plus, ...

The main challenge in manufacturing these high precision mirrors is associated with their very demanding slope errors. Typically, such errors for the supplied off-axis parabolic mirrors must be very ...

The company’s glass-substrate parabolic mirrors provide off-axis focus for UV and visible-spectra applications. Dissimilar to conventional parabolic mirrors, the mirrors direct and focus collimated ...