Brian
10-28-2008, 06:42 PM
One Good Reason to Go Heliotropist (http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13354/One-Good-Reason-to-Go-Heliotropist/)
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Looking for the best way to feed the world's hunger for energy, James May visited a solar furnace to see how powerful they really are. Usually, solar furnaces are used to boil water into steam to generate electricity or make hydrogen fuel. But May thought that the best way to make people understand their insane power is to do something equally as insane: Melt steel almost instantly.
A solar furnace is a mirror structure used to concentrate sun rays into a small area called the focal point. As you can expect, the concentrated rays produce extremely high temperatures: At the focal point, solar furnaces can achieve temperatures of 5,430 ºF (3,000 ºC). The idea is not new—coming from ancient Greece—but their potential is starting to become more relevant now as we try to cut dependency on fossil fuels.
My jaw physically dropped watching this clip. As opposed to dropping in spirit, something that I'm sure is the situation for most declarations of LOL. No, my face split at the teeth and kept going 'till the hinge on the right side does that clicking thing it does since I got lockjaw my freshmen year of college from what must have been a specially-trained combat, yeah, fence. It was huge, though, eight feet tall if it was an inch!
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Read full story here (http://gizmodo.com/5069043/solar-furnace-melts-steel-our-minds)
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Looking for the best way to feed the world's hunger for energy, James May visited a solar furnace to see how powerful they really are. Usually, solar furnaces are used to boil water into steam to generate electricity or make hydrogen fuel. But May thought that the best way to make people understand their insane power is to do something equally as insane: Melt steel almost instantly.
A solar furnace is a mirror structure used to concentrate sun rays into a small area called the focal point. As you can expect, the concentrated rays produce extremely high temperatures: At the focal point, solar furnaces can achieve temperatures of 5,430 ºF (3,000 ºC). The idea is not new—coming from ancient Greece—but their potential is starting to become more relevant now as we try to cut dependency on fossil fuels.
My jaw physically dropped watching this clip. As opposed to dropping in spirit, something that I'm sure is the situation for most declarations of LOL. No, my face split at the teeth and kept going 'till the hinge on the right side does that clicking thing it does since I got lockjaw my freshmen year of college from what must have been a specially-trained combat, yeah, fence. It was huge, though, eight feet tall if it was an inch!
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Read full story here (http://gizmodo.com/5069043/solar-furnace-melts-steel-our-minds)