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Ignorant question - what about a solar concentrator - like a mirror - instead of an array of "traditional" solar panels?
by chadgeidel 13y ago
Ignorant question - what about a solar concentrator - like a mirror - instead of an array of "traditional" solar panels?
- ajuc 13y agoI don't know for power genreation, but it would make awesome weapon.
- jkdearden 13y agoIt actually makes for pretty good power plants, usually they're called some variant of 'solar power towers'. The plants use a bunch of adjustable mirrors that focus sunlight in order to heat water and make it into steam that powers a turbine. There are also ones that use molten salts as a heating element, but that technology is a lot newer.
- JanezStupar 13y agoI remember reading about such a device being planned to "send power" to remote US army outposts e.g. near front lines.
- w1ntermute 13y agoSounds like the Memento Mori (from Mobile Suit Gundam 00): http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Memento_Mori http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Memento_Mori
- fuzzythinker 13y agoIdea in "Die Another Day", hard to secure it to not be used as weapon.