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Re: Homemade incinerator beam!
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July 24th, 2004, 02:21 AM
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Re: Homemade incinerator beam!
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Indeed it does, just send those photos to your opponents and i'm sure they'll surrender. 
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July 24th, 2004, 02:26 AM
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Re: Homemade incinerator beam!
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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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Re: Homemade incinerator beam!
Ok, given all this, why hasn't anybody tried to generate steam electric power from sunlight?
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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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Re: Homemade incinerator beam!
could you please explain what exactly you did ? You just focused 4 small mirrors at a certain point yes ?
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July 24th, 2004, 09:08 PM
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Re: Homemade incinerator beam!
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could you please explain what exactly you did ? You just focused 4 small mirrors at a certain point yes ?
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This is exactly what appears to have happened, but if you have ever used a magnifying glass to burn things with, it is the same basic priciple. basically the focused sun energy burned a hole in the stick. Now to only implement this on a large scale...
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