Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Concentrating Solar Collector and Electric Car

Location:   Sequioa  601   

Our inexpensive solar collector uses flat mirrors that track the sun to boost the output of photovoltaic cells. We use the power to charge an electric car. The collector is built by high school students at the Latino College Preparatory Academy in East San Jose, Calif.

Web site: http://www.lcpa-extreme-science.com/

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About the Maker(s)

Thomas Zimmerman Thomas Zimmerman [
Tom Zimmerman is an inventor, educator, and researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center who loves gadgets, LEDs, synthesizers, and hooking people up to computers.
http://domino.research.ibm.com/odis/odis.nsf/pages/profile.zimmerman.html

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