Yeah, I'd go for a larger one -- more energy collection.  I think the larger ones are also tracking?  wherease the current generation satellit dishes are fixed.

On 6/26/06, Ken Provost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Jun 25, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Jason& Katie wrote:

> does anyone know if a regular 2'x1.5' satellite dish
> (primestar i think) will work for a solar collector?


Pretty small -- 300 watts of insolation at best. Figure a typical
small stove burner  puts out 1000 watts at least. Now one of
those early satellite dishes five feet in diameter would catch
a LOT of rays....

-K

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