Fatsomus asked:
Clip from James May’s Big Ideas where bunch of hippies burn and melt stuff with their ’solar furnace’, oh and it has something to do with making petrol out of thin air.
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That’s not steel! Probably Aluminum?
With that kind of heat, methane can be made from hydrogen and carbon dioxide, then oligomerized into gasoline.
Dude, you totally overcooked that hot dog.
wow an awesome parabolic to reach those temps!!!!
mind control is a way better power.
thats cool as a weapon but i don’t see how it’s very useful or productive for industry. it works only during certain hours, in certain regions, and only under certain weather conditions. it also only works on small areas. gundam is retarded, the only way you can power a gundam is with fusion energy… they’re trying to sell us this crap instead…
the next wmd?
THATS BAD ASS!!!
LOL…. …yes.
If the sunlight gets bounced on it by other mirrors.. What if you put that sucker outside in direct sunlight?
well the efficiency of makig petrol out of air would be ridiculus low so no one would really attempt to try to use it for economic use…
so… mythbusters pwned?
if i had powers, i would certainly get that ability and the ability to attract the person you like. hahahaha but that is really awesome.
Not the twlight zone.. Gundam perhaps?
Inverse square law doesn’t work when you’re focusing the beam genius
damn,
that was quick
I’ve always known such a thing was possible, I just haven’t really thought about it. I have to say though, seeing it happen is pretty damn cool.
That is a Cosmic Energy reflector, not. But there is a cosmic energy reflector.
What if this was in space?
Has anyone ever used the Hammer of Dawn in Gears of War? xD
wow imagine if we could use this as a weapon, they’d call us one messed up one if we used it on them
yea but they dont have millions of dollars of research grant and years of research to create it
The legend dictates that he used massive mirrors – and apparently nothing else.
Provided he had enough of them, and they were stretched far enough along the coast – and that they were huge – it’s technically possible to do. There just haven’t been any measurements written down, so attempts thus far have failed – it appears to be incredibly expensive. However, early mirrors were often just polished metal, and this would be cheaper than the silver-backed glass that most mirrors use today.
I want this to heat my house in the sunny days of winter. It should suffice a mirror in the garden and water pipes running at the focal point. Where can I purchase such a heater ???