• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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      They already do this fyi. Solar plants tend to use mirrors that concentrate light to heat water and turn a turbine instead of actual solar panels. Amazingly, iirc converting light into heat, the heat into steam, and then the steam into kinetic energy, is still more efficient than a normal photovoltaic cells.

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        1 年前

        Mythbusters used a lot of mirrors, and could not get it to work.

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          1 年前

          The concept is viable. Just needs moar mirrors

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            Sadly I believe they found adding more mirrors did not appreciably raise the temperature of the focal point. Diminishing returns and all. So unfortunately more mirrors is not the answer, more Lasers is!