I know this doesn't quite fit the thread and it did inspire my slow light crystal idea below the link.
I came across it in a thread over at Space battles and thought of this thread and the idea below.
Go have a look.
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Your talking about crystals perhaps your ancient Greeks or Egyptians get their hands on a source of crystals that slow down light to say 1 meter a day within the crystal.
Wrap a reflective metal around a crystal 3 feet long 1/2 foot wide rod and put one end of the crystal at the open end of a large solar collector and let it sit there and fill with a days worth of focused sunlight.
Put reflective caps on both ends and you have a power source that can keep a "charge" for a day or two and boil water by simply sliding off one of the reflective end caps.
Add in some sort of crystal that can columnate the focused light into a beam and you have a power source and a light beam weapon.
I can see it now solar powered trojan horses with laser beam eyes.
howard melton
God bless
I came across it in a thread over at Space battles and thought of this thread and the idea below.
Go have a look.
img.photobucket.com/album...676940.jpg
Your talking about crystals perhaps your ancient Greeks or Egyptians get their hands on a source of crystals that slow down light to say 1 meter a day within the crystal.
Wrap a reflective metal around a crystal 3 feet long 1/2 foot wide rod and put one end of the crystal at the open end of a large solar collector and let it sit there and fill with a days worth of focused sunlight.
Put reflective caps on both ends and you have a power source that can keep a "charge" for a day or two and boil water by simply sliding off one of the reflective end caps.
Add in some sort of crystal that can columnate the focused light into a beam and you have a power source and a light beam weapon.
I can see it now solar powered trojan horses with laser beam eyes.
howard melton
God bless