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Yeah, this appears to be more for fun than anything. Sandia has done concentrated solar research for decades. Roasting chiles is a New Mexico tradition. Hey, le
by pavon 4y ago
Yeah, this appears to be more for fun than anything. Sandia has done concentrated solar research for decades. Roasting chiles is a New Mexico tradition. Hey, lets throw a chile roaster on the top of the solar collector tower! I'm only surprised it wasn't done earlier.
Not really a practical or serious technology at this time.
- ianai 4y ago“Ken acknowledged that it’s not feasible to build a tower and field of heliostats just for roasting foods like green chile, coffee or grains. However, he and his colleagues are exploring a much smaller and more modular solar-roasting system that conceivably could be transported to farmers’ markets, grocery stores and chile festivals for roasting small batches of green chile, like the propane-burning steel-drum chile roasters currently use.”