Wiktionary
n. Any system designed to capture of solar radiation for producing thermal energy, which may be used for space heating or for electricity generation.
WordNet
n. a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun; can produce high temperatures [syn: solar dish, solar furnace]
Wikipedia
Solar collector may refer to:
- Solar thermal collector, a solar collector that collects heat by absorbing sunlight
- Solar Collector (sculpture), a 2008 interactive light art installation in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Solar Collector is an interactive light art installation in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. It was commissioned by the Region of Waterloo and designed by Gorbet Design Inc. The sculpture consists of twelve aluminum shafts lined with solar panels and high-intensity LEDs. Each shaft is arranged to optimize its exposure to the sun at a particular time of year. The shortest, most acutely angled shaft is perpendicular to the sun at the Summer solstice (June 21) and the tallest shaft is perpendicular to the sun at the Winter solstice (December 21). Energy collected and stored during the day powers a nightly show. The general public interacts with the sculpture via its website where they design patterns and routines for the LEDs which are combined to create the nightly shows.
Usage examples of "solar collector".
Each stood in a wide black pool of solar collector, as if tar paper had been scattered at random.
What I want you and Rafe to do, Honor went on, is take all the input from the solar collector taps and compare it to Major Isvarians rough estimates.
The energy needed to power the mass-driver was beamed down as microwaves from a three-mile-wide orbiting solar collector.
Now and then a work of humankind gleamed into view, a dome cluster, a monorail, a relay mast, a solar collector, a microwave transmitter beaming the energy invisibly to the mother world.
Melody realized that they had passed the officers' section and were heading into the sword-blade -- the solar collector.
Melody realized that they had passed the officers' section and were heading into the sword-blade-the solar collector.
Satellite dishes were scattered along its solar collector roof, pointing south.
So the ore would be passed through a solar toaster, as Malenfant thought of it -- an inflatable solar collector working at a couple of hundred degrees centigrade.
So the ore would be passed through a solar toaster, as Malenfant thought of it-an inflatable solar collector working at a couple of hundred degrees centigrade.