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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls
Well, Mike Dabrowski did it by gluing thousands of 1" square mirrors to a parabolic dish. If you need the light sharply focused, your 1' square mirrors will be too coarse. I suppose you could break your mirrors into little pieces.
If you don't need the light sharply focused, then my first thought would be to use hardware, e.g. screws and clasps, to hold the glass in place.
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Not sure I understand what you mean... you're saying I wont generate enough heat with 75 to 80 mirrors? I'm looking at building a slightly smaller version of this, although I'll be cheating and using the satellite dish as a frame:
A Tracking Solar Concentrator for the home experimenter, Table of Contents and Notices, page_iii,iv, 10/09/99
What do you mean 'sharply focused' ?