Re:Harvesting solar power in space and sending it back to Earth
by schiffern on Thursday August 29, 2013 @06:10PM
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>Basically, you can't exceed the power per steradian of the sun with mirrors.
This is something I've wondered about. It seems like one should be able to make a counterexample by focusing an enormous area on a tiny one. Is it just because due to "fuzzy focus," the concentrated focus volume unavoidably grows as the mirror size grows?
This is something I've wondered about. It seems like one should be able to make a counterexample by focusing an enormous area on a tiny one. Is it just because due to "fuzzy focus," the concentrated focus volume unavoidably grows as the mirror size grows?