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Re: RETRO MIRROR SCHEMES
- 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: RETRO MIRROR SCHEMES
- From: T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)
- Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 00:00:13 +0100
To Lee,
>>>IDEA! Why not skip converting the sunlight and just gather it directly into
>>>lasers using these huge mirror apparatuses that I'm proposing. The arrays
>>>aroundSol would need to be heavy to keep from getting blown away, but that's
>>>okay.
>
>I mentioned this to Kelly some time ago, but didn't send it to every one
>else. There was an article published in Scientific American about 10 or 15
>years ago where someone had figured out how to make a MECHANICAL (that's
>what you call it when it only uses mirrors)Solar Pumped Laser. Some sort of
>spiral collector/intensifier with flute shaped collimators.
>
>Anyway, without any moving parts it is capagle of generating a visible light
>laser from the Sun the only part I don't get is how you can have a
>polychromatic laser in the first place, since by definition a laser is
>monochromatic...
>
>Anyway, since there is no conversion the only loss would be to thermal
>heating from internal absorption, it should be very efficient. And real
>CHEAP to build.
THIS IS IT, for the last few days I've been thinking about how wonderful it
would be for us to have such a device.
Not only could we use it as a solar collector-laser but even more important
also as retro-mirror!
Do you know a more exact year or title? Anything that would help me to track
down the article?
Timothy