Solar thermal powered bike
video part 5

I tested the solar thermal pipe with a wine bottle and an air pocket as an insulator. It lost less heat than a test without the wine bottle insulation. This shows me that stale air can be used to insulated the solar heat pipe. This will greatly reduce thermal loss for the solar thermal bike.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhquZ...e_gdata_player

I am selling my KLR650 and all my touring gear. Check out the add.


http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/mcy/3902108767.html

Video 7 of building a solar thermal powered car. In this video I test a sun tracking motor on my small model. I will use this setup to test sun tracking for the full scaled 6 by 24 ft mirror on the solar thermal powered car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYOa8...e_gdata_player

Plan?
 

You posted you're selling your bike. You still in La Paz? What are your plans now? I lived there for 5 years.

We sold our bike and are now building the solar
Car using that money. We will be living in La Paz for the next half a year. We will leave when the car is complete. We have been here for about 8 months now.

Solar thermal powered car part 8

In this video I control the large sun tracking motor with a low powered signal. This will alow me to use a mircocontroller to control the large solar thermal mirror on the car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q35mn...e_gdata_player

car
 

hi ,
are thinkinmg of using a frame already existing or build one like a ultra light buggy tubular , are you going to run fuel and solar power ( new hybrid type), maybe a sidecar will be lighter ?

In the beginning we will keep the gas motor just in case. This way we can unhook the trailer and just drive the normal car if we have to. I wanted to have solar PV cells on the car but it is too expensive. Then I would have an solar electric and steam electric hybrid. Not much good on cloudy days but we are not in a big rush.

car
 

it will be great to see something small enough as a trailer to attached to an electrical bicycle , maybe a new way to travel .

Travel video 32 of our trip to visit family in Canada.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv8Tn...e_gdata_player

Solar thermal powered car video part 10

In this video I drive the solar powered model in both directions with the motor drive circuit. I also run the full scale drive motor and test the control signal amperage and find the its low enough to be controller by the Arduino.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10cNC...e_gdata_player

Solar thermal powered
car video 11

Controlled solar thermal mirror with Arduino controller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkw81...e_gdata_player

Solar thermal powered car part 12, homemade hot oil pump

I built a pump out of pop cans and broken DVD player parts to circulate the hot oil that absorbs the suns heat. In this video I explain how the pump works and run it with fluid. Next I will run it with water and measure the L/min at different voltages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aidN...e_gdata_player

Its alive. My solar thermal
Model follows the sun.
In this video I test the suntracking by having it follow a flashlight. This is a big step towards the solar thermal car. I need fast bi directional sun tracking if I want to get solar thermal energy while the solar car is moving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_gmM...e_gdata_player

In this short video the solar thermal model follows a lamp to demonstrate the suntracking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyYGU...e_gdata_player