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. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power
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queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
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.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 days ago
TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
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.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Not a point, but an area resembling an scaled image of the sun (if optimally focused).