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Re: Mirrors (Round 3)
- To: KellySt@aol.com, kgstar@most.magec.com, stevev@efn.org, jim@bogie2.bio.purdue.edu, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl, hous0042@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rddesign@wolfenet.com, David@InterWorld.com, lparker@destin.gulfnet.com, bmansur@oc.edu
- Subject: Re: Mirrors (Round 3)
- From: T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:31:44 +0100
To Brain,
>Here is the idea. Perhaps we could have these 10 km wide mirrors focus into
>a mirror aparatus connected to them. This aparatus could refocus the beam
>and spit it out to the Asimov like a full blown maser. The mirror complex
>should weigh less than the alternative maser generator hardware (I hope). I
>wonder if power losses due to reflection would beat out converting maser
>beams to electricity and then back to maser beams.
Please give me a clue about how this aparatus works. You cannot use curved
mirrors alone, since they are a priory not perfectly curved.
And if you have figured out how you can turn a diffusive beam of light into
a parallel beam using mirrors only, I'm very interested since that would be
worth some money.
Tim