Realizing the Dream of Green Energy and Making the Impossible Possible

摘要

An apparatus for storing and/or converting solar energy into a mechanical and/or electrical energy product in a continuous manner, twenty-four hours a day. The apparatus includes an enclosed volume chamber having a wall formed from transparent material capable of allowing solar energy beams to enter into the chamber, the wall of the chamber having a reflective inner surface for trapping and reflecting the solar energy beams within the chamber, a heat absorbing member located within the chamber for receiving at least a portion of the solar energy beams, an inlet for feeding air into the chamber wherein the air becomes heated, an outlet for allowing the heated air to exit the chamber, and a conversion device for cooperating with the outlet for receiving the heated air and for converting the heated air to mechanical and/or electrical energy. The conversion device can be a plurality of thermophotovoltaic cells or a turbine.