electric generator : Cal Poly, Solar Thermal Electric Generator - Project Update: 4-20-09

The Suns of Power design team from California Polytechnic State University, Mechanical Engineering Department, senior project: design, analyze, build, test and operate a solar thermal electric generator that is capable of producing at least 200 W of usable electricity over the course of 1 hour. As of April 19th, 2009, the system is almost completed. In this video we are hooking up the final components. We are testing the flowmeter, pressure gauges, thermocouples, pump, steam separator

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