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Your range is cooking primarily through conduction though, it only heats what it touches. This is heating through direct electromagnetic radiation, if anything
by qbasic_forever 4y ago
Your range is cooking primarily through conduction though, it only heats what it touches. This is heating through direct electromagnetic radiation, if anything gets in the sun beam it will fry at 900 degrees. Move your hand in the wrong place and you will have massive burns in an instant without touching anything.
- jxramos 4y agothat's no joke, you can check out this guy's channel and see all sorts of stuff instantly combust or begin to melt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE54ctrHBY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE54ctrHBY. 1000W/m^2 can concentrate into some serious power. Scary and dangerous stuff.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoAt the Sandia central collector the main beam is much hotter than 900 degrees and it's not uncommon for birds to be cooked instantly and drop from the sky if they happen to fly too close to the beam's focal point. This is one reason why the heliostats are always kept defocused unless an experiment is taking place.