November 24, 2008
Melting steel with solar power
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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Woah! Thats Gundastic!
Aeolia Schenberg's really the greatest inventor of the next century.
Maybe Solar furnaces will rly come soon! xD
GUNDAM! –> The show which inspires the world…
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omg he point the mirrors and it burn a hotdog!
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Unfortunately, you'd need a couple million of these parabolic mirrors, and it would only work on sunny days.
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You probably dont even need a parabolic shaped mirror base, just use a flat piece of wood with adjustable mirrors on it. Also, I guess that energy can even melt things of higher temp since that liquid metal is probably 50% reflective of the light anyway.
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What a shame we can't make steam to run a generator with this rig. If we could we could have pollution free energy for the planet. Oh well what a shame!
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amazing.!!!
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fo sheezy harness the power of the sun in some sort of sword looking thing? It will be like a sabre or something that shoots light?
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Just amazing
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solar furnace…..Gundam 00
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Next step…. THE DEATH STAR!!! Muahahahaha
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what's with thumbing down "soubhana? allah"
That's the Arabic equivalent of saying "God is indeed great". You don't have to **** what a Muslim says if you disagree with him/her
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KINDLY FUCK-OFF – MAN
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lol , yea 2,500 C , but that's way over 9000
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it's not really correct to call it a laser , you see…..
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soubhana allah
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im joking… i dont think even the great archimedes could have developed this technology 2000 years ago
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How does that prove Mythbusters wrong?
They said it would have been impossible to have a fleet of soldiers holding reflective metal sheets tfocus enough light onto the ship to ignite it.
They weren't testing the myth that the sun produces enough energy to be able to ignite wood.
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can gundam 00 be a reality…. it creeps me out when thinking it….
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Excellent point, as far as I know nuclear power is used to create steam that turns turbines, why not replace that nuclear action with this sun laser thing? Eco friendly electricity!
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fuck this is awesome. thnaks for upload been looking for this for ages. proves mythbusters wrong! 5*
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HAHahahaha XD, exactly
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haha, agreed. I especially like the "how will this power a gundam?" one…
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It's over 9000!!!!
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caralho!!!!
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