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| Welcome. Practical Solar, Inc. has developed a new, proprietary concentrating solar power (CSP) system to harness energy from the sun: a small-scale heliostat system. A system consists of the control software, a driver box, and anywhere from 1-200 heliostats. Standing alone, the system can be used for natural lighting, "direct" thermal applications, and a wide array of novelty applications. Other products (some currently in development) can be used with our heliostat array to provide turnkey solutions for space heating, hot water heating, swimming pool heating, absorption cooling, desalination, various thermal-industrial processes, and generation of electricity. Practical Solar heliostats use mirrors to reflect sunlight to the desired location (the "target"). Each heliostat is individually targeted and controlled by the software. Thus the heliostats can direct sunlight to different targets or to a common target for CSP applications. The user has the option of focusing the 8 individual mirrors in each mirror mount on a common spot (a smaller target), resulting in a further increase in solar concentration (about 4x per heliostat). Thus an array of 100 heliostats can achieve a concentration of up to 400 suns on a 2 ft2 target. We look forward to working with you on your application. Click here to check out our image gallery.
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