Solar Roast’s current sun-powered coffee roasting machine, the Helios 4, is composed of 600 mirrors and weighs 11,000 pounds. But they need a bigger one. The Helios 5. And your money to build it.
https://gizmodo.com/super-roasting-coffee-with-600-mirrors-and-a-giant-ball-5797159
Click to viewIn exchange, while they’re going to use their new solar array with “hundreds” of smaller robotic mirrors that can focus sunlight in any direction to heat-power their fifth-generation coffee roaster, they’re going to open source the entire setup and the technology behind it. So, other people can use the solar power tower-based system developed by the Open Sun Project for different projects like generating power, ovens, furnaces or anything else that could make use of super intense sun powah.
Personally, I would love for you guys to give them money, so somebody can bake cookies in one of these things and send them to me. [Kickstarter, Open Sun Project]
