ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: You guys are ignoring all of the mechanical and structural challenges of > pointing 350,000, 30 foot mirrors at the ground using worm gears and > stepper motors that have just lost power due to a storm and/or lightning > strike. No motor power, no movement. >
Places such as large generators, telephone switching centers, data centers, military complexes and the like always have emergency power and backup power systems. Fukushima was powered for nearly a day even though there was catastrophic destruction to the Diesel backup generator system. No engineers would design a system that could be destroyed with a single lightning strike. Except for the engineers who design the bad-guy hideouts in James Bond movies. - Jed
