Using sunlight to get vigour without filling the glasshouse with solar panel . With this idea , Lucas de Groot recently win first award in the Cleantech Challenge . “In the energy agreement , the Dutch governing also requires glasshouse gardening to concentrate vim need . This can be achieved by using less free energy or by bring forth energy . The known solutions for generating energy , such as wind turbine and solar panels , are not ideal for this sphere . aerogenerator provide drop dark and you’re able to not dwell solar panels on top of the greenhouse , " says Lucas .
Generate energy above the cropA solar concentrator should offer a solution . “ The grower hangs the concentrators just under the roof . The incoming light is ‘ disconnected ’ : active twinkle is change into electrical and thermal push via a humble solar panel , while diffuse illumination feed the crop . The agriculturist can practice the vigor that is generated or hand over it back to the storage-battery grid . "
From architectural plan to productLucas carried out his graduation naming at the Sustainable Energy Lectorate of the Hogeschool Arnhem and Nijmegen . “ There were plans to develop a solar concentrator for greenhouse horticulture . I was trained as an industrial product designer and so I start to plough that estimate into a real product . For example , I thought about the effectuation , the product price and the payback sentence . According to my calculations , that payback period is twelve year . "
Future plansWinning the battle earned Lucas € 3,000 . “ I ’m enquire whether I can now set up a start - up to further recrudesce the product . The first stair would then be a test frame-up with which I can stop whether my computation are correct . "
The Cleantech Battle halt from the Cleantech Challenges of the Cleantech Center . Companies can present their interrogative sentence in the field of honor of sustainable technology to the Cleantech Center . These challenge are deploy at various educational institutions in the east of the Netherlands . The students come up with possible solutions , which should above all be feasible in practice . In the annual Cleantech Battle , the best musical theme compete for the primary swag . But the Challenges and the Battle do more . They also put the scholar on the mathematical function : the previous three winners of the Cleantech Battle all went on to start their own company .
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