Maria (a.k.a The Sun Queen) Developed a Number of Solar Power Inventions
Pictured: Maria Telkes & Her Collapsible Solar Still Patent (1966)
What Would You Say If... I told you that there are plenty of more articles to come now that I've gotten past my writers block!! So because I feel like I can see clearer now since the rain is gone this week's article is about Mária Telkes (aka The Sun Queen.)
Mária Telkes is responsible for developing a number of solar powered inventions. Some of them include a solar-powered water distilling system, some of the first solar heating systems and even solar ovens.
While I could go into all the amazing inventions she created, we would be here until the sun went down. What really stood out though was the solar powered house she invented, which have paved the way to the solar panels of today.
According to an article by Morgan Sherburne, Telkes alongside an architect designed "a wedge-shaped Dover house which looked like a typical home chopped in half, the shape designed to help it collect sufficient light. A bank of 18 windows lined the second story of its south-facing wall, which was a story higher than its north-facing wall.
Behind those windows, Telkes installed panels of glass and metal to soak up the sun’s warmth, heating the air that her system blew between the glass and metal layers. The warmed air traveled through a duct and across enclosed, insulated storage bins built into the walls of the house.
The bins were filled with 21 tons of Glauber’s salt. On sunny days, the salt melted and absorbed heat, cooling the air in hot weather. When the temperature fell, the salt cooled and recrystallized, giving off its stored heat.
Telkes’s house effectively solved the storage problem of solar heating. On cloudy days, when no solar energy was entering the system, a fan system blew heat from the cooling, recrystallizing salt throughout the house."
Mária Telkes had revolutionary inventions and in 2012 she was even indicted into the National Invention Hall of Fame. I can say brightly that she ran with technology so we could run even further!
TLDR:
This week's article is about Mária Telkes (aka The Sun Queen.) Mária Telkes is responsible for developing a number of solar powered inventions. Some of them include a solar-powered water distilling system, some of the first solar heating systems and even solar ovens, which helped to pave the way to the solar technologies of today.
Telkes alongside an architect, developed "a wedge-shaped Dover house which looked like a typical home chopped in half, the shape designed to help it collect sufficient light. The house was lined with a bank of 18 windows. "Behind those windows, Telkes installed panels of glass and metal to soak up the sun’s warmth, heating the air that her system blew between the glass and metal layers.
The warmed air traveled through a duct and across enclosed, insulated storage bins filled with 21 tons Glauber’s salt was of built into the walls of the house. On sunny days, the salt melted and absorbed heat, cooling the air in hot weather"
Mária Telkes had revolutionary inventions and in 2012 she was even indicted into the National Invention Hall of Fame. I can say brightly that she ran with technology so we could run even further!
