Direct conversion of solar energy to mechanical energy

Details Direct conversion of solar energy to mechanical energy Direct conversion of solar energy to mechanical energy

1976-05-07

1978-02-28

Ostrager, Allen M.

Power plants

Motor operated by expansion and/or contraction of a unit of...

Mass is a solid

60641, F36

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040758478

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a method and means for direct conversion of solar energy to mechanical energy through alternate warming and cooling of material consisting of highly aligned, high density polymer molecules. A strip of said material, when warmed by any means, contracts along its axis of alignment and such contraction can do mechanical work in a way mechanically similar to muscular contraction. A plurality of such strips mounted upon a rotor does work against gravity; the gravity field then returns the energy as torque.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3830060 (1974-08-01), Jedlicka et al.
patent: 3968692 (1976-07-01), Blattler et al.

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