[TheForge] crackpottery

[Tod Estes]

I am sure that you could explain that the yard full of mirrors offered a
positive reflection on your communitity. I saw 2 of the big old dishes
mounted together to create cool flying saucer yard art.
> I like the cat tracker..
> "Heck, how much trouble could a guy get into with a yard full of
> mirrors anyway?"
> Les'see, add an impact sport to a buncha mirrors...
> Those cheapie wardrobe door mirrors will arc almost enough to focus.
> I heard that summer sun was about 100 watts a square yard...dunno
> for sure....
> Phlip, they exiled me to the far left coast for a reason...PF
>
> frosty at customcpu.com wrote:
>> Hey Phlip:
>>
>> Don't forget to heave a HUGE sigh of relief I dont live near either of
>> them. I
>> know Deb is. I already have the solar thing designed. . . sort of. Heck,
>> how
>> much trouble could a guy get into with a yard full of mirrors anyway?
>>
>> Frosty
>>
>>
>> Quoting marilyn traber 011221 <phlip at 99main.com>:
>>
>>
>>>>>How bout solar?
>>>>>How many square feet of reflective surface does it take to heat
>>>
>>>a
>>>
>>>>>couple of cubic inches of iron to a healthy yellow?
>>>>>What's the junkyard tracking mechanism?
>>>>
>>>>Somewhere there must be a huge heap of those 6' diameter satellite
>>>>dishes (I only have one I dragged home on junk day.)  They had
>>>>positioning motors on them.  Of course, the focal point is too
>>>
>>>close
>>>
>>>>but some math, some jiggering with mylar film might do it.  Fill
>>>
>>>your
>>>
>>>>yard with them and focus them on a refractory-brick box.  Put a
>>>>junk-bin web cam with a filter on each one, have yr computer nudge
>>>>each one so as to properly position the sun's disc in the image
>>>
>>>(more
>>>
>>>>trig here).  The OFF switch by the anvil causes little
>>>
>>>electromagnets
>>>
>>>>to distort the mylar and fuzz the focus.
>>>
>>>You know, I'd laugh, except I can see you guys doing something like
>>>that. Dunno if it's a relief, or a disappointment, that you and
>>>Bruce aren't very close together...
>>>
>>>Phlip
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Tod Estes
Oologah Smithy
Oologah,Oklahoma. (Home of Will Rogers.)
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Time enough for sleep in the grave.

"Prometheus: I took from man expectancy of death.
Chorus: What medicine found'st thou for this
        malady?
Prometheus: I planted blind hope in the heart of
           him.
Chorus: A mighty boon thou gavest there to man.
Prometheus: Moreover, I conferred the gift of fire
Chorus: And have frail mortals now the flame-
        bright fire.
Prometheus: yes, and shall master many arts
            thereby."