EarthSure is an interesting renewable energy conceptual design firm. We’ve covered their two previous ideas – an underground solar panel system and a device which turns AC unit exhaust in energy – and always look forward to reading about their next brainstorm. Such it is is then they announced yesterday an extension of the former of the two ideas – the Dynamic Duo.
The Dynamic Duo is explained as being “a system of collecting both solar and man-made light through optical lenses installed in fixtures such as office building lights, street lights, stadium lights, etc. and transmitting the light via fiber optics to solar panels hidden beneath the ground.” It is an add on to the SubSolar system, which uses a single solar optical magnifier to transfer sunlight to the same underground solar panels.
image via EarthSure
An example of this dual system working together, explained EarthSure’s Ray Saluccio, goes something like this: “With EarthSure’s Dynamic Duo system, a light-collecting optical lens is installed on the top of the street light fixture to collect natural sunlight during the daylight hours. Inside the light fixture would be additional optical devices collecting light during the evening hours when fixtures are illuminated. Both of these optical lenses would capture, magnify and transmit light via fiber optics to solar panel modules underground. The solar panels would then transform the two sources of light into free, clean, renewable energy, allowing for a 24/7 source of producing renewable energy.”
EarthSure [via press release]
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