Michael Foster posted;
What I would like to know, since there is such a variety of knowledgable people on this list, what would be the best use of 8kW of concentrated solar energy? Thermoelectric? Stirling? Zinc reduction? What? I really don't know what do with this, if anything. M.
I assume that your film frensel lens would be orbitable. I heard a guest on C to C AM talk about an orbiting solar power station which would produce energy in the form of microwave radiation, which could then be beamed down to the earth and collected. He suggested a steam boiler which would turn a turbine. primitive, but it works. This is the same man who proposed using the aforementioned microwave beam to heat the water on one side of a hurricane's path causing to to track in that direction, out into the Atlantic. Now this, IMHO, would be weather control that would work.
