300 watts in a 1.5 litre reator is A LOT! I use 375 watts to heat 30 litres in my prototype batch reactor.
Joe Ken Provost wrote: > On Jun 25, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Jason& Katie wrote: > > >>does anyone know if a regular 2'x1.5' satellite dish >>(primestar i think) will work for a solar collector? > > > > Pretty small -- 300 watts of insolation at best. Figure a typical > small stove burner puts out 1000 watts at least. Now one of > those early satellite dishes five feet in diameter would catch > a LOT of rays.... > > -K > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/