What do you get when you combine some particle board, 112 mirrors and our closest star? The Solar Death Ray. Each of the tiny mirrors are angled to hit one area (the target). The Solar Death Ray can heat the target up to 500-600 degrees Celsius (930-1100 degrees Fahrenheit).

Now all you gotta do is work out how to make James Bond stand there for long enough... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

Does this qualify as a solar microwave? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Will it work for forging? Just a thought <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

It sure looks like a fun toy. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

yeah it does.. there are some electric generating plants in the desert that use mirrors.. to heat water pipes.. to spin turbines..

That's a cool idea too. Use it as an energy device.

Ideal for when the oil runs out in about 20 years!

i live in city limits.. [censored] cc&r's won't allow alot of cool things.
but outside the city there are bunch of folks running windmills, solar panels & solar pre-heat waterheaters, you name it!
It'd be great to be "off the grid" and not have to rely on those money-grubbing energy companies! grr... bastids.

In the 30's in saskatchawan lots of farms had wind generators but when they wanted to hook up to the power grid the company made sure(illegaly)that all the private turbines were destroyed before they would hook you up. Now we have public power and phone as well as insurance and we have the lowestrates and best service in north america.

that's exactly what i thought.

what if you replace the target with a magnifier?

Used to they sold a huge fresnel lens in Edmund Scientific. It was like 3x4 feet or something. They said it would make temps of thousands of degrees from the sun, and would melt asphalt in seconds. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> I always wanted one when I was a kid. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I think they quit selling them. However, I’ve had an idea for several years but never tried. Those older big-screen TVs have a huge fresnel lens for the “screen”. That might work for some cool experiments. Those TVs are only good for 10 years or less before they go bad. I’ve seen a lot of them given away free on freecycle etc. Usually say “needs work” or something. You could pick one up free and keep the lens. I have a 8.5 x 11” fresnel lens. When I was in AZ, I tried using it as a woodburner on some old logs to write my name. Worked great. I only had to keep in in place for a second or two before moving it. Just move really slow and burn right along. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Imagine what fun you could have with a giant lens. Think how quick you could boil water to sterilize it for instance. All without a flame.

interesting..
yes the sun is a huge source of untapped energy.. free for the taking..
if only humans could learn to use sunlight the way plants do.. it would be amazing.

to be a plant...with arms and legs....and other stuff.

LOL.. very poetic.. that post is.. and stuff.

That's to funny

Andy that is awesome! Thanks! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I want one. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Cool stuff, they did one of theese on Mythbusters and lit a boat on fire on the water a couple hundred feet away . Nothi'n beats a death ray.

Any plant but brocolli. My hair looks funny enough the way it is now.

It sure would be a cool project. Or an awesome entry for a science fair!

Well, sorta. If the boat moved at all it would work. They finally decided that it was a busted myth.

they bust every myth. let em stand on a mora stuck in a tree.

if they bust that one i'm writing a letter
voicing my displeasure
which extends beyond measure
since there's no myth that can weather
the two of them together.
fortunate, however,
that i could braid a tether
that would hold like red facial hair leather
as they are tarred and feathered.
that makes it better.

Archimedes designed a sun weapon to defeat the enemy's of Greece back in the day.
Still kicks butt!. Solar power is hot!

Peace.

Mythbusters busted the Archimedes myth. Apparently the first mention of the death ray was centuries after he died and none of the contemporary reports mention it.

reminds me to work on making a solar oven this summer! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

The solar grill was developed in Europe. I think it might work until the grease from a burger coated the mirror.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...in_page_id=1965

that's pretty kool! I hear out west here in america they have a whole power grid of them things making energy, a giant field of them!

I want a pocket size version for my PSK.

credit card freznel lens?!