How To Get 2000ºF Solar Power

Nick Mohan

You must be very careful with these things. Many serious fires have occurred because careless users left them outside — uncovered — in some haphazard location and position. Then one bright sunny day — often months later — the sun aligns just right and sets the barn alight. Or, while it’s in normal use, their curious — and curiously unsupervised — child, attracted by all the smoke, walks underneath it and instantly sustains terrible burns. While a marvelous bit of beguilingly innocuous technology, you have to treat them like solar powered hand phasers out of Star Trek.

I don’t know what 2000 f is in modern measurements, but I guess it’s hot. Serious consideration has to go into the use of such temperature. DANGER, Will Robinson, Danger.