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To: kidd

“Result would be high efficiency on the surface exposed to sunlight.”

That would be the end face of the fiber. For a 1mm dia fiber, the area is small.


6 posted on 10/30/2009 7:33:47 AM PDT by DBrow (Thank You Al Gore You Saved Earth!)
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To: DBrow

Just thinking out loud here and I apologize as this is not my field of engineering (Civil Engineers build targets), but I would think that you would need to lay the fiber bundle in a small, highly reflective tray similar to a oversize rain gutter so that you can focus the light on to the fiber array.

But I am sure they already thought of this...


19 posted on 10/30/2009 8:49:53 AM PDT by shotgun
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