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Pete Schwartz is an Associate Professor with the Cal Poly physics department in San Luis Obispo, California, USA. His involvement with solar cooking began in 2007, with particular interest in Scheffler Reflectors and other polar tracking heliostats. His hope is to empower people everywhere to build their own high performance solar concentrators.
He has helped organize a program at the university with the goal to build a simpler Scheffler system by laying up fiberglass parabolic reflector shells. Their tracking system employs tensioned strings that run vertically and horizontally accross the sun-gathering side. Additional study has been given to adding thermal storage to the system.
His research group has recently published in an online library a design for a polar tracking concentrator: http://www.scribd.com/doc/236395487/Redirecting-Sunlight-with-Polar-Tracking-in-Developing-Countries-and-Elsewhere
See also
External links
- 2-square-meter Aluminum Scheffler Reflector
- Construction and Improvement of a Scheffler Reflector and Thermal Storage Device, 2010
Contact
Pete Schwartz
1441 Iris St.
San Luis Obispo, California 93401
USA
Tel: +1 805-756-1220
Email: pschwart@calpoly.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cpscheffler