Say hello to the 'world’s largest artificial sun.” The enormous machine uses 149 lamps to simulate sunlight, making it a handy tool for testing things like solar panels or generating clean energy: (From 2017) 📸: Getty
used a magnifying glass to, say, fry an ant under the summer sun, you have a general idea of what the Synlight solar simulator does.
The enormous machine, which looks like an insect's eye, uses 149 lamps to simulate sunlight, making it a handy tool for testing things like solar panels or generating clean energy. Scientists threw the switch on the world's largest artificial sun on Thursday, which happened to be the birthday of the fellow who designed it. "I had tears in my eyes today," says project manager Kai Wieghardt of the German Aerospace Center.
That kind of power comes in handy when you want to test the effect of solar radiation on things like satellites. But what really excites scientists are the possibilities for using that intense heat to split water into hydrogen and oxygen to produce a clean source of energy. Of course, the scientists monitor their work with cameras, because the intense light and heat would kill a human. Bugs beware.
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