On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, YES NOPE9 <
yes@...> wrote:
> What happens if a bird or skydiver gets in the way ?
The power to the climbing unit is interrupted.
...
Oh, you mean to the bird or skydiver? ;-D
The laser beam is a fairly wide collimated beam of light, measured in
cm, rather than mm. While a 400W laser is nothing to sneeze at, and
burns may still occur, it's diffused over a larger area, so it's not
like taking an industrial 400W laser and cutting 1cm thick wood with
it, it would be more like holding four 100W heating elements against
the target, and that's assuming that all the laser energy is converted
to heat at the target, as opposed to some of it reflecting off.
I'm more interested in how the managed to pull power from the solar
array - since it won't all be illiminated evenly, some cells would get
damaged if it was a normal series array.
-Adam
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