Intense Solar Power

Sir Charles uses a beam of concentrated sunlight to melt a brick

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• homemade
• lava
• molten
• brick
• Fresnel
• lens
• solar
• power

[thorargent]

josh, there is a good philosophical point there, but physics does in fact show a real difference between rotating and non-rotating systems based on inertia.Rotating systems exhibit Coriolis and other forces (such as centripetal) while non-rotating ones do not.

[thorargent]

@DieterMe This is known, so your point would be? A device that follows the apparent movement of the Sun is a sun tracker. It does not matter which is truly moving, the mechanism and the result is exactly the same.

[volound]

@DieterMe the earth DOES move relatively to the earth. correction fail.

[thorargent]

@bradbeckett No, I worked for Martin Marietta years ago but it was in weapons systems. I don't have any association that I am aware of with GE.

[thorargent]

@bradbeckett No, I worked for Martin Marietta years ago but it was in weapons systems. I don't have any association that I am aware of with GE.

[bradbeckett]

@thorargent Did you work for GE Aerospace?

[joshgura]

is the earth spinning or is it everything else? this is a question that is only possible to prove if we establish a standard, but before that standard is established, the correct answer is "neither" because everything in the universe is at equilibrium, and all perception is flawed, and thankfully so, because these so called "perceptual errors" are what gave birth to awareness itself.

[OttoVanluchene]

i want one for the BBQ

[NeoDyne112]

@thorargent

LOOK i created a flying soucer..i can reach the moon in 1 minute, and i got oxtgen tanks for 10 days!.....What the fuck would u think happened if this was true?

[NeoDyne112]

@thorargent

We are thinking of our earh right?...Well..in the wrong hands it could destroy citis and destroy people important to us...when and if and how...in the wrong hands!