Lasers are coherent, I think you need a lasing medium for that.
You could focus the light into a single point, sure, but that’s not really a laser in the technical sense.
Also, you can only get as hot as the photosphere due to the reversibility of light. We can get far hotter other ways, eg fusion plants.
Not a point, but an area resembling a scaled image of the sun (if optimally focused).
You could focus the light into a single point, sure, but that’s not really a laser in the technical sense.
They actually do this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
Look up “mythbusters solar death ray” I think you’ll enjoy it
Wasn’t that the plot of the Bond film Die Another Day?
You might enjoy this relevant “What If”.
I think his argument only holds for lenses, not mirrors.
Read the “What if”, it is really interesting!
It explains why this holds for any optical system, including mirrors, showing it with a whole bunch of wildly different explanation approaches.
I even understood one or two of those… ;-)
You trying to build a Nicoll-Dyson emitter? That’ll get you a visit from the galacti-cops.
That’s what pedo musk is trying to do with his 1 mil satellites. He just needs a gold phantom of opera mask for half his face to complete his identity.
Or maybe a fluffy white cat to pet while pretending to be menacing.
So you’ve been reading John Ringo books them?
Okay…where is the rest of the post?
Laser light is collimated. Solar light is not since the sun is so close.
The world should all agree that laser needs to be spelled with a Z. Lasers are cool, Zs are cool. It’s a s simple as that. The world could use this sort of unifying cause
You spelled it with an S though… Maybe take a look in the mirror before judging others.
If you’re not brave enough to take part in changing the world, how can you expect others to do it for you?
Light Amplification by Zapping Emission of Radiation
Calm down Archimedes!
And if you directed most of that beam away from the sun and a smaller portion toward the sun (to keep your beam splitter in place) you could move the whole solar system
