Solar Death Ray Burns Hole in 1x12

[Midgetfoxi]

@Ryboy1381 I Agree

[M2rc310]

Hole??

[primoknoxville]

Take your alien technology and get the hell off my planet.

[Mr070363]

What hole?

[denelson83]

Should've filmed that from behind.

[MariposaLinda2006]

good job you used solar energy to let wood burn which gives off carbon dioxide. Kind of a defeats the purpose of a solar energy item...Better idea instead of using your death ray as a weapon put it to some enviormental good uses....maybe make some adjustments and then you could make a solar cooker. Or something that this world really needs...not what were trying to UNDO.

[geneduckett]

@MariposaLinda2006 , dry up, will ya

[MariposaLinda2006]

just stating the obvious!

[yugpud]

@MariposaLinda2006 OMG YOU BURNED WOOD NOW WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE

[shisaman]

hahahaha

[Domingohertz]

your internet penis?

[DasKloputzer]

no my internet penis is a bit smaller

but my real on is currently lying on a runway (a part of it)

[Domingohertz]

damn got to be hard to live with that xD

God didn't bless me much :(

[DasKloputzer]

yeah its reeeally reeally hard^^

it comes with the age, wait untill u are 70 and you'll be a monster xD

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

Wow... three and a half solid minutes of the same exact image. Thanks so much for the duration - not just the content quality. Its not like you could have summed this up in about ten seconds or anything.

[321ozzy]

At what time of the day did you carry out your experiment?

Regards from Mexico

[krl151992]

This particular movie was made at about 3-3:30 PM USA CT in mid-February. You can see the Sun is pretty low in the sky when the camera pans up to show it.

[krl151992]

The water boiling and cardboard videos were made during the same month but much closer to Noon. The outside air temperature was in the low 60's

[321ozzy]

Excellent result for the time of the year.

It must have been a hell of a job to position all the mirrors correctly.

The position of the sun here in Mexico City is pretty high.

[xerke]

@krl151992 celsius or fahren?

[kingnuttyfruitcake]

See,my baby can make a freaking deathray,dont piss her off O_O

[teenlabotomy89]

i'll give you a dollar to stick your hand in that haha

[toob247]

Point it at a brick wall on your home , I wonder if you would feel it in side after a while?

[vietarc]

another free energy device. lol

[AndreONEz]

Wow are they 380 mirrors?O_o

I'd want to do same thing,but must they be identical in size?

[krl151992]

No they dont have to be all the same size but having them the same size makes laying out the pattern easier. I used 2x2 in square mirrors and you can buy them pre-cut in large batches on ebay for not that much money.

[krl151992]

it is pretty cool isn't it! Thanks! :D

[EbonyScholar]

Its part of the light spectrum you are recognizing from the concentrating beam-reflection-okay ....

Gives a new meaning to holding a magnifying glass to a piece of paper huh? ... you should have to have a license to operate one of those personalized incenarators! LOL

[krl151992]

The purple beam is coming from the camera response to the bright sunlight; there really was no purple beam..toward the end of the video you can see the solar beam as the smoke blows through. The real cool part is that this was a late afternoon in February with air temp in 50's and this much heat was generated. I did a melting ice to boil timing on 100gram ice and estimate 170watts/sec power on target that day.

[hathawbj]

I'm guessing you mean 170 watts or 170 Joules/second, 'cause watts/sec is not power and doesn't make physical sense.

Given roughly 1kW/m^2 of insolation that would put you at a thermal efficiency of ~18%. Pretty impressive for a home-built concentration setup!

[krl151992]

Yes 170 watts on average over 3 tests. I tested by melting 50 grams of ice till it till the water boiled and took the timing got joules per second based on joules of energy required to do that.

[ismaeltaki]

very impressive.what that purple light beam?is it an added effect or just reflection,pls comment

[krl151992]

The purple ray you see is the reflection. :)