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Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars by mrcharles on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:17AM (#6327702)
The hotel in Vegas was built with a special film on the glass to reduce the glare by 70%. So they were obviously studying it/thinking about it. But if 70% is not enough, imagine if they had actually done nothing?

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/vdara-visitor-death-ray-sc...

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Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars by mikeash on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:02AM (#6328011)
If only there were some technique they could have used to calculate the amount of energy that would get focused with the 70% film in place to see that it was still too much.
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Re:Glare from London 'fryscraper' blamed for melting cars by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @11:01AM (#6327998)
Inner city solar power plant!
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