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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Could we use a ring of giant prisms to collect sunlight for power generation?
« on: 30/10/2008 02:25:17 »
So I'm kind of a different kind of scientist, but I wanted to see what kind of reactions I got from this posting. Not to make you all fall into a floydian reverie, but What would happen if we were able to set up a ring of giant prisms, equadistant from one another around the earth. Would we be able to glean some kind of perpetual energy collection, maybe have one of the prisms designed to focus light toward some recieving apperatus on the planet surface. A crazy idea, and as I said i'm no physicist, but It seems like the sun is our best bet for energy, so mirrors, lenses and prisms all seem like things we could use to collect and harnass some of that yellow goodness.
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