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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"This is a superior method of focusing sunlight than an array of mirrors because?"

Such a device could be used to harvest solar energy in places where the light is too diffuse for mirrors to concentrate it onto a solar cell. An optical black hole would suck it all in and direct it at a solar cell sitting at the core. "If that works, you will no longer require these huge parabolic mirrors to collect light," says Narimanov.

Sucks it in from all over Kingdom-come. Instant black-out for the universe.

9 posted on 10/14/2009 11:34:38 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: steve86

LOL

apparently they havn’t got it working 100% just yet then.


11 posted on 10/14/2009 11:36:26 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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