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    A solar furnace is a structure that uses concentrated solar power to produce high temperatures, usually for industry. Parabolic mirrors or heliostats...
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    The solar furnace of Uzbekistan was built in 1981, and is located 45 kilometers away from Tashkent city. The furnace is the largest in Asia. It uses a...
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    The Odeillo solar furnace is the world's largest solar furnace. It is situated in Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, in...
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    is widely open to amateur astronomy. The Odeillo solar furnace is the world's largest solar furnace. It is situated in Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, in the...
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  • Industrial furnace, a device used in industrial applications Glass melting furnace Muffle furnace or retort furnace Solar furnace Vacuum furnace Metallurgical...
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    A solar power tower, also known as 'central tower' power plant or 'heliostat' power plant, is a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive focused...
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    1212500°E / 42.5075472; 2.1212500 The Mont-Louis Solar Furnace is an experimental solar furnace - a solar thermal energy facility that was built in 1949...
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    Solar cooker Solar dryer Solar-powered fan Solar furnace Solar inverter Solar keyboard Solar lamp Solar pond Solar road stud Solar street light Solar...
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    south of France, 3 kilometres from the world's largest solar furnace in Odeillo. THEMIS solar power tower, owned by the General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales...
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  • population is 60,200 (2016). It is home to the Solar furnace of Uzbekistan which is the largest solar furnace in the world by mirror surface area. Soliyev...
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    Types of industrial furnaces include batch ovens, metallurgical furnaces, vacuum furnaces, and solar furnaces. Industrial furnaces are used in applications...
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  • the solar furnace of Uzbekistan to power a solar-pumped Nd:YAG laser would have been the world's largest system of its kind, at up to 1MW of solar input...
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  • Sun gun (redirect from Solar gun)
    Concentrated solar power Space mirror (climate engineering) Space-based solar power Solar furnace Znamya (satellite) (Not intended for use as a weapon, but similar...
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    Solar thermal energy (STE) is a form of energy and a technology for harnessing solar energy to generate thermal energy for use in industry, and in the...
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    under development at the Weizmann Institute of Science uses a 1 MW solar furnace to decompose zinc oxide (ZnO) at temperatures above 1,200 °C (2,200 °F)...
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    parabolic mirrors are used to gather light in reflecting telescopes and solar furnaces, and project a beam of light in flashlights, searchlights, stage spotlights...
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    devices have been constructed and may be referred to as a heliostat or solar furnace. Archimedes' alleged heat ray has been the subject of an ongoing debate...
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    build: the Odeillo solar furnace (official site), used for high-temperature scientific experiments; the Thémis experimental solar power plant (operated...
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    Heliostat (category Solar energy)
    different arrangement of heliostats in a field is used at experimental solar furnaces, such as the one at Odeillo, in France. All the heliostat mirrors send...
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  • tower, a hybrid power generator Solar power tower, a type of solar furnace using a tower to receive the focused sunlight Solar updraft tower, a concept for...
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    lenses, similar to lighthouse lenses, including those for use in solar furnaces. Solar furnaces are used in industry to produce extremely high temperatures...
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    installations such as solar parabolic troughs and solar towers or non water heating devices such as solar cooker, solar air heaters. Solar thermal collectors...
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    Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via, the Themis plant near Targassonne, and Mont-Louis Solar Furnace in Mont-Louis. The first inhabitants of Cerdanya probably spoke a language...
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  • Relativistic jet - Renewable energy - Rotational energy Seismic scale - Solar energy - Solar thermal energy - Sound energy - Specific energy - Specific kinetic...
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    focus spot of a big concave, concentrating mirror of the Mont-Louis Solar Furnace in France. Phase transition or phase change, takes place in a thermodynamic...
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  • is a center for research, development, and testing of solar power technologies. Solar furnace in Parkent is used in the research and scientific processes...
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    weapon used in 213–212 BC Heliostat – Solar tracking device Sambuca (siege engine) – Ship-borne siege engine Solar furnace – Focal point for concentrated sunlight;...
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  • solar photovoltaic conversions could be very efficient, but current conversion can only be done well for narrow ranges of wavelength, whereas solar thermal...
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    all a result of energy transformations in our atmosphere brought about by solar energy. Sunlight is the main input to Earth's energy budget which accounts...
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    A furnace (American English), referred to as a heater or boiler in British English, is an appliance used to generate heat for all or part of a building...
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