Solar Generator

Mirrors focus onto an external combustion engine to
produce electricity.

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[jollivier]

It's not an external combustion engine if you're not using fuel. Combustion is when any type of fuel combines with oxygen to produce heat. Silly boy!

[toamaori]

way of the future... instead of solar farms, if they were just dotted around the city three here three there on the tops of hi rise buildings, that sort of thing, power generation would become decentralised and much easier to get going after a disaster

[macrumpton]

@dzgfdg Nuclear combustion is the rapid consumption of stellar material by a thermonuclear fusion front, propagating subsonically (deflagration) or supersonically (detonation), releasing large amounts of energy that are observable as astrophysical flashes peabrain.

[dzgfdg]

@macrumpton there is no combustion on the sun idiot

[magua73]

macrumton wrote:

"Technically you are right, but the concept is still valid..."

I wasn't even arguing about "the concept", I was just pointing out that there is no combustion on the sun, that's all.

[macrumpton]

Technically you are right, but the concept is still valid in that the heat is being generated outside of the engine even if it is a nuclear reaction rather than a chemical one.

[magua73]

Last time I checked, combustion was a chemical reaction and not a fusion reaction like in the Sun.

[macrumpton]

The combustion is taking place on the sun.