Energy Not Enemy: The Working Model

A working simulation of the solar steam generator described in Energy Not Enemy by Aries Hilton. Sunlight is focused by a Fresnel lens, water becomes steam in a closed loop, the steam turns a turbine and a generator, and at night the steam condenses back to water and comes home.

What this is, plainly: a lumped-parameter simulation. Real equations, solved live, fed with real measured weather where weather is used. It is not a mesh physics model and it is not a measurement of a built machine. Every number the book states is traced in the specification. Every number the book does not state is listed in the assumption register below and marked as an assumption. Where the simulation and the book disagree, the claims table says so.

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Whole plant

Power through the day

Run this machine anywhere

Pick a place and the app fetches real hourly sunlight and temperature for it, then runs the same machine on that weather. Fetched places are cached on this device and work offline afterward.

The whole period, understood

Output by hour and month (average net kilowatts)

Months and seasons

Best, worst, and median days

Claims check: the book vs the simulation

Assumption register

Every value the simulation needs that the book does not state. These are engineering defaults, chosen openly, and each one can be challenged and changed in the solver's parameter list.

The source document

Cover of Energy Not Enemy by Aries Hilton

Energy Not Enemy by Aries Hilton is the design's source document. The full book is included in this repository's book/ folder, free to read there by the author's choice. The strategy is dual-path: free for those who find it in the repository, paid for those who buy it through storefronts.

The book is © Aries Hilton, all rights reserved. It is not covered by this repository's software license and is not licensed for resale or redistribution. The software license applies to the simulation code only. See book/README.md in the repository.

Read the book in the repository