This application of solar energy is light years beyond the use of solar energy to solely heat bath water, swimming pools or residential structures.
Go somewhereThe Sterling Energy System does not require any externally provided power source. It is a non-combustion process. It is NOT a Stirling engine (spelled differently), and it is NOT an absorption refrigeration technology.
Go somewherePhotovoltaics are increasingly available for the direct conversion of solar energy into electricity. But they can't make refrigeration or air conditioning directly, nor can they do it efficiently. They require rare and exotic materials, they are NOT recyclable, and they degrade relatively quickly, in contrast to flat plate solar thermal collectors which can work and last indefinitely.
Go somewhereRefrigeration for storage of food and medicines; air conditioning; atmospheric water harvesting.
Go somewhereCapturing solar energy from more than 3,000 square miles of rooftops across the US, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. That's 10 gigawatt hours per day.
Go somewhereRecovering otherwise lost energy from high-temperature production processes, such as metals processing and combustion-based electricity generation, about half of all industrial energy used. 119279 gigawatts alone are used to make cement. Sterling converters can recycle that heat to produce almost 5,000 gigawatts of electricity, or 1.4 billion tons of refrigeration.
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