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> And you can’t put a camera on the target to look back at the mirrors, because it would get melted. So just put it behind a heavy metalized filter that reflec
by manholio 4y ago
> And you can’t put a camera on the target to look back at the mirrors, because it would get melted.
So just put it behind a heavy metalized filter that reflects over 99% of the incoming energy? And suspend the whole assembly about 1 meter in front of the target on a metalic post so it can cool down in the air. Or rather, a number of such assemblies so you can maximize incident energy over the entire target.
Optimizing that does not sound like a deep learning problem, just a classic computer vision algorithm.
- tlb 4y agoMaybe. Just remember that an extra 1% of efficiency is worth 1% of the billion-dollar project cost, so there’s pressure not to have sensors blocking even a tiny part of the view.
- londons_explore 4y agoOr just put the camera somewhere else. Then point one mirror at a time at the camera (therefore, it only seex 1x sunlight) to do angle calibration, and then aim that mirror back at the proper target and calibrate the next.