Energy Infrastructure for 2030

Conference Explores Energy Infrastructure for 2030

Meeting tomorrow's energy needs in a sustainable manner requires an infrastructure for providing, managing, and distributing it. Learning to do all this is the focus of IEEE Energy 2030, a conference to be held in Atlanta on 17 and 18 November. There's more at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/13630/80524716

As fas as I am concerned, I have students working on parallel robots to aim or point the solar panels towards the sun.

In water heating, these thermal flat panels are so  common in the Middle East but they have fixed frames.  

There is a nice optimization problem there since this mechanism should consumme very little and it should always be targeted on the sun. The device do not need to be fast but need to be very light still making parallel mechanisms relevant.

Luc Rolland