functions as a personal source of energy. A parabolic dish focuses sunlight on a specific point where more than one device can be installed – a concentrated photovoltaic cell, a water vessel or a frying pan. The mirror is adjustable and allows movement regardless of the sun’s position. An identical dish doubles the amount of generated power and enables the formation of an inhabitable space.
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activity of its surroundings by imprinting different diameter circles into the responsive dewy sand at dusk, slowly drawing them around the base of the device. The sizes of these circular imprints indicate the magnitude of each particular reading. This is the macro-seismic function of the device. This mechanism and frame can be converted swiftly into a simple shelter which in turn houses the secondary seismometer and the occupant. The device is a smaller horizontal seismometer which projects its reading of the occupant’s movement during sleep onto a roll of photo sensitive paper attached to a 1-hour egg-timer using an embedded laser pen. This is the device’s micro-seismic function. Fig. 3.10 Matei-Alexandru Mitrache Y2, ‘Portable Solar Heater’. In order to tackle the debate about the scale of solar power plants, the Attachable Solar Cooker
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