This solar heating device was planned to test highspeed missiles and not for a domestic dwelling. It was designed to create temperatures of more than 7000 degrees Centigrade. A mirror, 147 ft high and 150ft wide would reflect the sun’s rays to a second mirror (on the left of the picture) which would beam them to a sin focus.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 11
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59This solar heating device was planned to test highspeed missiles and not for a domestic dwelling. It was designed to create temperatures of more than 7000 degrees Centigrade. A mirror, 147 ft high and 150ft wide would reflect the sun’s rays to a second mirror (on the left of the picture) which would beam them to a sin focus. Press, Volume CV, Issue 31057, 12 May 1966, Page 11
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