[TheForge] Re: Solar forging?

[Erik Gutfeldt]

Ok, I can't resist. One more crackpottery email.

On Dec 13, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:

> 500kW sluicing through your meter

That's 500,000 W. So, for solar heating at that power level: 500  
square meters of mirror. Now that won't fit in my back yard (5000 sq  
ft). But if what Ries says is true:

On Dec 13, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Ries Niemi wrote:
> heating blanks in 10-40 seconds,

Would make a dandy forging setup...

On that subject, ran into another solar death ray web site:
http://solardeathray.com/index.html

But unlike the MIT one (129 1 ft^2 mirrors, for effectively 65000 W),  
this looks to be only (!) about 1 M^2

Erik