Patent ID: 8893710
Filing Date: 2014-11-25
Classification: F24S,H01L,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A solar collection system for generating thermal power, comprising: an elongate central truss angled upward from ground horizontal and mounted on a plurality of ground support legs, a collector subsystem mounted at one end of the central truss, a cross truss perpendicular to the central truss and mounted at an end of the central truss opposite the collector subsystem, a reflector subsystem mounted on the cross truss, the collector subsystem including a truncated trapezoid-shaped housing with a front side facing the reflector subsystem, the front side including a glassed-in opening fronting a V-shaped core heat mechanism enclosed within the housing interior that captures reflected photon energy from the reflector subsystem which heats a fluent medium within the V-shaped core heat mechanism for output to an external source for thermal power operations, the system further including: a pump, and a three-sided photovoltaic cell powering the pump and attached to the housing, the heated fluent medium ported via an outlet of the housing to an external holding or storage tank via the pump, wherein the housing includes a two-sided, angular mirrored-surface cavity having two angled mirrored sides formed into the distal end thereof, with each of the angled mirrored sides formed at an angle into the housing to receive both direct and reflected photon energy from the sunlight, two of the sides of the photovoltaic cell in adjacent spaced relation to the two angled mirrored sides forming the cavity in the housing distal end, and the photovoltaic cell is oriented directly in the path of direct sunlight, receiving both direct and reflected photon energy via the two angled, mirrored sides of the cavity onto all three sides of the cell.