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Old July 23rd, 2004, 10:58 PM
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Default Homemade incinerator beam!

The parts can be found at your local dollar store, and it scales up reasonably well.

Be sure to ask permission from any women in the house before you try this at home, and be careful.

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I did keep the garden hose on hand for safety, and used it twice.

That stick is about a centimeter in diameter, and the end fell off about three seconds later.
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 11:49 PM
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Default Re: Homemade incinerator beam!

it means that all those sinister talks about SOI were true
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Old July 23rd, 2004, 11:51 PM

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Default Re: Homemade incinerator beam!

haha nice..ill try it too
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Old July 24th, 2004, 12:11 AM

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Default Re: Homemade incinerator beam!

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[QB] The parts can be found at your local dollar store, and it scales up reasonably well.

Be sure to ask permission from any women in the house before you try this at home, and be careful.

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I did keep the garden hose on hand for safety, and used it twice.
Would this tie into your sneaky stratergies to win a poker tournament SJ? Or are you planning something more sinister...
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Old July 24th, 2004, 01:10 AM
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Default Re: Homemade incinerator beam!

It has nothing to do with Poker.

However, I have recently acquired the parts nessesary to quadruple the power, and tomorrow should be a sunnier day.
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Old July 24th, 2004, 01:43 AM
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Default Re: Homemade incinerator beam!

Ah, a Wave Motion Gun
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Default Re: Homemade incinerator beam!

Bah...

A giant Fresnel Lens will do things like this, and more.

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/21/1936210.shtml

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/lens.html

http://giant-fresnel-lens-for-sale.p...om/index.shtml
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Default Re: Homemade incinerator beam!

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It has nothing to do with Poker.
Indeed it does, just send those photos to your opponents and i'm sure they'll surrender.

But thats pretty impressive considering it's home parts and stuff.
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Old July 24th, 2004, 02:26 AM
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Bah...
A giant Fresnel Lens will do things like this, and more.
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I do have a fresnel lens, but its more trouble and the focal length on it is too short. (Its off a busted overhead projector, so about 30cm on a side, but the focal length is about 10cm)

These mirrors are cheaper too.
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Ok, given all this, why hasn't anybody tried to generate steam electric power from sunlight?
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