2026 Green Powered Challenge: Cook With The Sun!

One of the problems facing any solar power installation comes in storing enough power for high-intensity operations such as cooking. The high-tech and expensive way involves battery banks and inver…

Hackaday
2026 Green Powered Challenge: Cook With The Sun!

One of the problems facing any solar power installation comes in storing enough power for high-intensity operations such as cooking. The high-tech and expensive way involves battery banks and inver…

Hackaday
#solarpower there's this little known design innovation that I learned about a few years ago. It seems to be all but erased from the web for whatever reason. Anyway, in this useless YouTube video you can see these large strips of glass mirror. Right at the central part of the mirror you are a metal bar. What it is is a pull bar with a screw adjuster at the end of it. It makes the simple flat #mirror a #parabolicmirror in one direction. Or if you prefer a #cylindricalmirror. Genius 😎.