Kender Energy Inc. is a development phase company active in the field of solar energy. Its present prototypes of solar panels are being developed into a full-scale solar energy production system. The particularity of the Kender solar panel system and technology is that it allows a heat exchange to be created via a closed circuit of gas (usually helium) between sunlight and the air from the environment. The exchange generates the spinning of the helium gas in the closed circuit, propelling a turbine, which produces electricity in a 100% clean and renewable process. The system's main advantages are that it is efficient, cheap in production, and modular.
The engine developed by the Geneva (Switzerland) based company has "the ability to generate mechanical energy from an input combination of electrical energy added to an air temperature differential, for a higher mechanical energy output than the initial electrical energy input," explains CEO, Sean Kelly. "The phase 1 testing proves the Kender Solar Power engine principle. These tests are very encouraging for the future of Kender Energy and open the door to a new generation of solar energy devices, which can have high coefficients of performance (COP), along the same magnitudes as those of heat pumps,” he added.
The company explains that although this successful phase does not yet create a finalised product, it clearly demonstrates the capability of the engine to produce a desired energy output. Several additional tests will need to be carried out in the near future, working mainly on the materials resistance to thermal differentials.
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