Could solar "weapons" exist ?

[steevo]

I was just surfing the net trying to find out how to make a solar panel and I came across the Fresnel Lens (basically a very powerful lens) and also a Solar Collector (like a satelite dish with a shiny concave interior).

At the focal length of the Solar Collector, when the sun shines on it, it gets incredibly hot and can burn things easily.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWAyAqIoNj8&NR=1

The Fresnel Lens, when the sun shines through it, at the focal point it can burn things, boill water (or melt ice) VERY quickly. You can see a video on this page :- http://greenpowerscience.com/

Have you every heard of the two items being combined to create "free" energy.... or, the cynical side of me thinks, maybe it could be used to do damage, eg a satellite in space aiming it at certain areas on the planet.

Do you think this is feasible ?

I mean a massive lens was sent to space for the hubble telescope.

Inflatable Solar Collectors - Energy of the future ? :-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kROgE4Jdm-k&mode=related&search=

[steevo]

Oops i thought I posted this in the General Forum :o
Maybe someone can move it ?

[harris999]

hmm intresting, while highly unlikely i know. But its possible i guess, that something like that could start something like those fires in greece.

Makes you wonder.

[binhdinh_khiwarrior]

polar ice caps, sudden flooding-world wide destruction, forest fires all from one thing-could be used to invent a comet hitting the earth or planet passing by in 2012..?

[asentinel]

Did you mean Scalar weapons, free energy, etc?

[steevo]

Did you mean Scalar weapons, free energy, etc?

No I actually meant power of the sun solar. Magnifying the heat from the sun.

That Scalar weapons thing looks interesting. I will need to look into that subject one of these days :)

[notaslave]

In the late 90s I remember reading of some kind of large mirror that was to be put in space.

I will go see if there is any info on net.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/272103.stm apparently it didnt work

[snoopsnuffleopagus]

Greetings & Salutations!:

Your query causes me to recall from the dim and distant past, of a story of Archimedes. It seems the Greek City of Athens was approached by a large fleet of warships(phoenicians?).

Archimedes suggested all the Greek soldiers to burnish their shields and meet him on the quay. Once there, he arranged them so they could unify the reflected sun from their shields upon common focal points of individual ships. The amplification of the suns reflection from thousands of burnished shields upon a singular point, ignited the dry timbers and sails of the ship that was the focus.

They did this to ship after ship after ship until the aggressor fleet were all ablaze, sinking them.

This is considered the first usage of LASER in warfare.

Fact or Fiction?, am not sure. But usage of Solar weapons is well within the realm of probability and possibility.

Kind Regards: Snoopsnuffleopagus

[steevo]

Greetings & Salutations!:

Your query causes me to recall from the dim and distant past, of a story of Archimedes. It seems the Greek City of Athens was approached by a large fleet of warships(phoenicians?).

Archimedes suggested all the Greek soldiers to burnish their shields and meet him on the quay. Once there, he arranged them so they could unify the reflected sun from their shields upon common focal points of individual ships. The amplification of the suns reflection from thousands of burnished shields upon a singular point, ignited the dry timbers and sails of the ship that was the focus.

They did this to ship after ship after ship until the aggressor fleet were all ablaze, sinking them.

This is considered the first usage of LASER in warfare.

Fact or Fiction?, am not sure. But usage of Solar weapons is well within the realm of probability and possibility.

Kind Regards: Snoopsnuffleopagus

Thanks for that Snoops, amazing stuff :)
The solar collector is very simple technology so it could have existed back then, not sure about the ships but you never know. A great story nevertheless and I'm sure that if that stuff did exist back then, the illuminati would have deleted it from history so that we the people couldnt benefit from it.

[brian]

The romans had solar weapons, or so I overheard from the break room the other day when the history channel was droning on. I remember the program mentioning that the soldiers carried mirror-reflective shields for an instance where they had to get into a fortress that was blocked by giant wooden doors. The soldiers gathered around the door near noon, in the form of a semi-circle. They all angled their shields to one point, creating what the program considered a "laser," although I wouldn't consider it so much a laser. It did, however, cause the giant doors to burst into flames, or so the ancient legend tells.

I think the sentinal machine gun robots in Iraq, currently run by US and Israel are solar run too.

[brian]

haha, I read the message above, sorry guys, I didn't see the other blog about that! Maybe it was from boats now that I think about it...

[serpentoffire]

Please,follow the white rabbit...

http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/starting%20pages.htm
http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/teslaweapons.htm

http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/fig10.jpg

[steevo]

It's in the Metro Newspaper and the other mainstream papers that they are gonna put 5000 "solar collectors" / "solar concentrators" in space to use as a weapon !!!!

Metro : Flying mirrors could save the Earth (http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=68881&in_page_id=34)

TimesOnline : Mirrors: the best defence against asteroids (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2592040.ece)

They say it is to protect us against asteroids...yeah right! In the reports they say these asteroids come every 100 years to earth, oooh they love to try to frighten us. Knob heads.

Thanks for those Tesla links Serpent :)

[kblood]

Wasnt one of the newest James Bond movies about a solar weapon? "Die Another Day" I think it is. Seems likely that something like that might have been made. Putting a magnifying glass into space should not be all that difficult with the technology we have today. It will probably end up being shot down or something like that though.