Spherical solar panel collector for power generation

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The increased necessity of usage of renewable energy in our day to day life has increased a lot and as a  result there are many advancements happening in the field of renewable energy.Until now in the case of solar energy we were using conventional solar panels like flat or concave solar panels but now its the time to welcome the new type of spherical solar panel for power generation.

                                This model has been developed by an architect from Germany named "Andre Broessel" and he claims that this proposed model occupies less area and it can receive more energy from the sun when compared to the conventional ones. Its special feature is that it can also harvest energy from moon during night hours.It is equipped with Dual axis tracking system.The movement of the solar panel according to the movement of the sun is called as solar tracking.This model is named as Beta.ray which is created by his company Rawmelon.This model is claimed to generate two times more power than the conventional solar panels and it is also equipped with a hybrid solar collector.The efficiency of this model is estimated to be 57% when it works in hybrid mode.During the night hours the lens in the panel can be transformed into lamp with high power to illuminate the place where it is installed using some LED lights.The structure of this model suits well to provide electricity to houses,electric vehicles etc.

Working of this model :

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When the sunlight falls on the lens of the panel surface heat from the sun is absorbed in the form 

of radiation and radiation is converted to electricity by the photo-voltaic system where the obtained energy is stored by the hybrid collector.The power generated here is DC and is stored in battery connected to it and from the battery this power is fed to houses or electric vehicles etc.But in order

 to run AC loads inverter is connected between battery and the AC load respectively.