Widdekind
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According to the National Geographic documentary Known Universe -- Most Powerful Stars, "solar furnaces" can quickly reflect "megawatts per square meter" of (free) solar energy, onto targets, heating & melting computers, aluminum plates, and stainless steel meat cleavers.
Could not "solar furnaces" heat water, producing steam, that could then drive turbines, per conventional power plants? Solar energy is free (cost zero), so could not inefficient solar power panels be bypassed, in favor of direct reflection of sunlight, onto water targets, to produce vapor, to drive turbines?
Could not "solar furnaces" heat water, producing steam, that could then drive turbines, per conventional power plants? Solar energy is free (cost zero), so could not inefficient solar power panels be bypassed, in favor of direct reflection of sunlight, onto water targets, to produce vapor, to drive turbines?