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  2. Archimedes' heat ray - Wikipedia

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    The heat ray has been the subject of ongoing debate about its credibility since the Renaissance. René Descartes rejected it as false; [2] a test was conducted by Comte de Buffon (circa 1747), documented in the paper titled "Invention De Miroirs Ardens, Pour Brusler a Une Grande Distance"; and an experiment by John Scott was documented in an ...

  3. Solar furnace - Wikipedia

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    Legendary accounts of the Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) tell of Archimedes' heat ray, a set of burnished brass mirrors or burning glasses supposedly used to ignite attacking ships, though modern historians doubt its veracity. The first modern solar furnace is believed to have been built in France in 1949 by Professor Félix Trombe.

  4. Effect of Sun angle on climate - Wikipedia

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    The amount of heat energy received at any location on the globe is a direct effect of Sun angle on climate, as the angle at which sunlight strikes Earth varies by location, time of day, and season due to Earth's orbit around the Sun and Earth's rotation around its tilted axis.

  5. Sun gun - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes' heat ray, a purported device from antiquity which weaponized the sun's rays; 20 Fenchurch Street, a skyscraper in London whose concave reflecting face generated extremely high temperatures - hot enough to melt plastic - by reflecting the sun's rays; Concentrated solar power; Solar furnace; Space-based solar power

  6. Solar water heating - Wikipedia

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    The amount of heat delivered by a solar water heating system depends primarily on the amount of heat delivered by the sun at a particular place . In the tropics insolation can be relatively high, e.g. 7 kWh/m 2 per day, versus e.g., 3.2 kWh/m 2 per day in temperate areas. Even at the same latitude average insolation can vary a great deal from ...

  7. Solar thermal energy - Wikipedia

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    Heat gain is the heat accumulated from the sun in the system. Solar thermal heat is trapped using the greenhouse effect; the greenhouse effect in this case is the ability of a reflective surface to transmit short wave radiation and reflect long wave radiation. Heat and infrared radiation (IR) are produced when short wave radiation light hits ...

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