Monday, July 22, 2019

Concentrating Sunlight to initiate fusion reaction


The idea is to collect sunlight over a large area, and concentrate it down to the nano scale.
For the sake of discussion lets say you concentrate all the light you collect down to 1000 nanometers (1µm).



Questions is... how much surface area sunlight would you need to collect and focus to 1µm, in order to deliver enough energy density to initiate a fusion reaction.




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