Melting Steel With Solar Power

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This Video Shows You The Real Power Of Solar Where It Can Even Melt Steel.

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Melting Steel With Solar Power

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death ray??
erm... isnt this suppose to be the archimedes death ray? it uses the concept of placing mirrors in a parabolic shape to concentrate the heat energy into one spot. it could mean war........
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- Some people can only see the destructive
  potential of any powerful device.
  By Absofsteel 1225199891 Reply Spam [+0] Moderate Up Moderate Down Remove ~~2071415~~
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- He is
  refering to a device built hundreds of years ago. I don't think he is saying that it should be used as one.
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lol
we learn this in school thats who killed many innocent ant at backyard with lens :D
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Sunshine to Petrol Project
This solar ray is being used in the production of fuel from air. Google for 'sunshine to petrol project'
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wow
i wonder when they are going to invent instead of using electricy use the solar power
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a question 4 xperts
how come the lens through which concentrated light passes doesn't melt ?
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  Light and all the caloric energy must be concentrated at a focal point, which is located at a certain distace AWAY from the lens or (in this case) mirror. the lens acts as an aplifier of the enegry, and it doesn't melt because the highest temperatures occur only at the focal point.
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- only half true
  the otherhalf of the truth is that the light must be absorbed to heat something, cause it is a lense it is allowed to pas throught un obstructed which causes minimal heating
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James May FTW
this is a clip from his show that was on BBC
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now i know
now i know how to melt Transformers :)
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Sweet
Wow
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I'm sure..
The military already has a bid on this.
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- I dought it
  A weapon that could only be used in sunny weather, has extemly short range, can be defeated by a smoke screen, fragile, large and ungainly, to big to comoflage, can only fire at stationary targets, ect, ect, ect. No military on the planet would want one.
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- ur doubt is good
  but can't it evaporate enemy satellites passing by in orbit ? how about assembling an array of such ray-guns in space itself to shoot down the enemy ?
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- peaceful only
  ...lets see how good a "weapon" this makes..
  1) too big to move easily (area of collection enormous if high heat wanted)
  2) can you steer it - well maybe but generally only a few degrees either side ofthe suns pathway across the sky
  3) can you get your target to sit at focus (doubt it) - moving focus? not at these energies
  4) Oh yeah ...what happens on a cloudy day
  
  that's why this would be not much of a weapon
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- See
  above.
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Great
No put it to something useful.
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amazing
wow, that is impressive
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Very Cool
yeah'
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wow
now that's hot.
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Excellent
nice clip
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