July 24th, 2004, 05:53 AM
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Re: Homemade incinerator beam!
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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Ok, given all this, why hasn't anybody tried to generate steam electric power from sunlight?
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We have. The problem is to generate a significant amount of power you need a lot of sunlight to make a lot of steam. It gets impractical after a while, and the mirrors difficult to maintain.
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