Eric, You can think of this solar concentration as a ratio of areas. Light from one sun collected over an area is directed into an area that is 10,000 times smaller. This is not too difficult if you consider that a circular collector only needs to force the light into a smaller circle that has a diameter of 100 times reduction since area goes as the square of the linear dimensional change. A magnifying glass appears to reduce the effective area by a relatively large amount, although I suspect the concentration is much less that 10,000 to one. It would be easy to believe that the linear size of the apparent sun at the focal point is 1/30 th the outside diameter of the glass. This would appear to concentrate the light by 900 times.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eric Walker <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jul 29, 2014 11:11 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Heat dissipation is a MINOR engineering issue in the Suncell. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Jojo Iznart <[email protected]> wrote: With the hydrino explosion reportedly with 10,000 suns concentration ... I have been trying to get a sense of what 10,000 suns would look like in the lab. I can only imagine it would be bright. I tried to get some numbers on what levels of light intensity can be undergone for brief periods of time, but I didn't find much. In concentrated solar installations there is an angle within which it is considered unsafe; the units I saw used in such contexts were MW, and I'm not sure how this translates into suns or whether a solid angle is needed. This is what I imagine 10,000 suns doing to you if you look at it: http://youtu.be/0APF3SO9tqE?t=3m11s Eric
