This can be touted as the solar energy dragon in our eco-world. What else would you a 40 meter device that sucks in abundance of sun’s energy via 62 controllable mirrors and is capable of breathing out 3000°C of high temperature and radiate 1 million watts of energy! The mirrors are arrayed in a concave shape to collect optimum solar energy. Each mirror tracks the sun’s path through the sky to create a predictable and sustained level of energy. Known as the physics-sun solar laser, it is located at a very high altitude in the Tian-Shan mountains some 45 miles outside of the city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Conceived to help solve problems related to building earth orbiting solar power collector stations, the physics-sun project is a join effort of the Uzbek Academy of Science Institute of Materials Science and the Institute of Nuclear Physics.

And such high temperatures generated by this kinda solar laser can feed a wide variety of scientific experiments, especially those related to material science.

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