June 16

During our meeting with Professor Sivo we discussed the process of using wax as an organic battery to collect the thermal energy from the solar concentrator. As a result, we researched different types of wax and examined their melting point to see which on fix our criteria.

After examined the following types of waxes.

• Natural Wax

• Beeswax: Melting point 142°-150°F.

• Synthetic Waxes

• Microcrystalline wax: Melting point is approximately 160°F.
• Paraffin wax: Melting point 135°-140°F.

We determined that beeswax will be our mostly likely candidate for our first prototyped.


Since we need to work with Fahrenheit, we reset and retested the (name the instrument, add a picture). Our excel data collection is working properly as of right now. To protect the sensitive thermocouples, we looked into thermal casing. Our chosen medium is red silicon tape or their silicon sleeves.





 

We also research 1ft threaded pipes, but found none with such dimension. We will continue to look into this.

Here are some information about the 1 foot pipe as needed

As part of our research, we watched various videos on how to make a parabola mold out of concrete. This mold is later used to created the parabola shape with fiber glass.

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Today we are working on all the reading material provided to us by Professor Sivo.