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Tapping the Sun’s energy: Sree Sharada Peetham, Sringeri
Sharada Peetham serves food to 10,000 (around 6,000 in the afternoon and around 4,000 at night) people every day. This includes visitors to the temple/peetham and students of nearby schools under its midday meal scheme.
Food is prepared in large cookers using steam generated from large boilers. Earlier the Peetham used to burn almost 4,000 litres of diesel every month to run diesel engines for heating the boilers but now this is replaced with solar energy.
Parabolic dishes use mirrors shaped like parabolas to focus incoming radiant energy onto a fluid-filled pipe that runs down the center. Heat from the fluid is used to produce steam or is converted directly into mechanical energy. Here it is used to generate steam.
Tapping the Sun’s energy: Sree Sharada Peetham, Sringeri
Sharada Peetham serves food to 10,000 (around 6,000 in the afternoon and around 4,000 at night) people every day. This includes visitors to the temple/peetham and students of nearby schools under its midday meal scheme.
Food is prepared in large cookers using steam generated from large boilers. Earlier the Peetham used to burn almost 4,000 litres of diesel every month to run diesel engines for heating the boilers but now this is replaced with solar energy.
Parabolic dishes use mirrors shaped like parabolas to focus incoming radiant energy onto a fluid-filled pipe that runs down the center. Heat from the fluid is used to produce steam or is converted directly into mechanical energy. Here it is used to generate steam.