Solar Furnace in Uzbekistan - Rendered or Real?

doo_much · Post by **doo_much** » 07 Apr 2008, 17:15

Source

OK uber web-aholics.

Are these pics real or Photoshopped?

And if they ARE real - anyone have more info on the alleged solar oven?I've tried Google.

Hman · Post by **Hman** » 07 Apr 2008, 17:29

I'm going to need one of these for the winter.

Ike · Post by **Ike** » 07 Apr 2008, 17:58

lol, melt down aluminum? wth, You can melt aluminum over charcoal...

I say it's fake. if the mirrors are fixed it would mean the thing would only work at full capacity for a few minutes every day...

Post by **Ron2K** » 07 Apr 2008, 18:31

Looks like a render to me.

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 07 Apr 2008, 18:57

Shheeesh. Its really well done, but the like acid rain lines are too consistant IMO?

Richard_ · Post by **Richard_** » 07 Apr 2008, 19:00

Date of original article: 31 March 2008 according to source. Most likely an early April fools joke.

[edit - can't resist posting this pic

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Post by **Stuart** » 07 Apr 2008, 19:08

Richard_ wrote:Date of original article: 31 March 2008 according to source. Most likely an early April fools joke.

Wouln't an April Fool's thing be posted on 1 April?

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 07 Apr 2008, 19:10

wizardofid · Post by **wizardofid** » 07 Apr 2008, 19:14

I say it's fake. if the mirrors are fixed it would mean the thing would only work at full capacity for a few minutes every day...

Nope it would not be fake do some research you will find that the mirrors on the ground reflect to a tower which in turns heats up some thing.

A field like that can easily be a Mile or more big all mirrors are then set for a common point as more heat is generated that way.

To put it simple the tower is the one recieving the reflection.The are fixed by can be adjusted if needed.

As for is it real.Yes it is.....

Richard_ · Post by **Richard_** » 07 Apr 2008, 19:22

Well I'll be damned. Seems legit after all.

Wikipedia article on solar furnaces

Uzbekistan solar furnace

Ike · Post by **Ike** » 07 Apr 2008, 19:28

wizardofid wrote:
I say it's fake. if the mirrors are fixed it would mean the thing would only work at full capacity for a few minutes every day...
Nope it would not be fake do some research you will find that the mirrors on the ground reflect to a tower which in turns heats up some thing.

A field like that can easily be a Mile or more big all mirrors are then set for a common point as more heat is generated that way.

To put it simple the tower is the one recieving the reflection.The are fixed by can be adjusted if needed.

As for is it real.Yes it is.....

you just said in a paragraph what I said in one sentence. Yes it can work but not very efficiently.

There is an solar incinerator in the us, near las vegas btw. anyone care to google around for the link?

edit: @richard. Nice find... I stand corrected. but I still think the ubek one won't work well

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 07 Apr 2008, 22:03

Why is this even relevant

A solar furnace - well I'll be! Harnessing the sun's energy... why aren't more people doing this...

A solar furnace, as previously stated, has to be pretty big to be at all effective, is about as technologically advanced as a big convex half-dome of glass can be. They had these before Christ, for his sake!

So what if the Uzbeks have this? We are a nuclear power.

Anyway, I have it on good authority that Uzbekistani's are a very nosey peoples with a bone in their brain. They also produce inferior potassium.

doo_much · Post by **doo_much** » 09 Apr 2008, 18:09

Richard_ wrote:Well I'll be damned. Seems legit after all.

Wikipedia article on solar furnaces

Uzbekistan solar furnace

Shot Richard!

You're obviously waay better at Google than I am.

@Jamin
The relevance is that us factory worker types have to save 10% power and we're being sold the idea of using solar power to run our zinc baths. Which is why this came up. Problem was that the pics are just TOO nice and that I couldn't find any other reference to the plant. Which Richard did. Saving my bacon in the process.

Post by **Anakha56** » 09 Apr 2008, 21:03

i thought it was fake, it looks like something from the CnC Tiberium universe from GDI...

zerubabel · Post by **zerubabel** » 09 Apr 2008, 21:47

jamin_za wrote:We are a nuclear power.

UrBaN · Post by **UrBaN** » 10 Apr 2008, 07:23

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! ZERUBABEL THAT'S THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE SEEN ALL DAY!!!!!!!

LMFAO!

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 10 Apr 2008, 07:33

zerubabel wrote:
jamin_za wrote:We are a nuclear power.

[img]O%20RLY[/img]

YA RLY, you simpleton.

We have 2 nuclear power plants - that alone should give you a clue.

We are also the only country to ever voluntarily dismantle our nuclear arsenal. Back in the bad 'ol days SA about 6 nuclear warheads statshed out in the Karroo - just in case.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/rsa/nuke/index.html

Moran

Samaya · Post by **Samaya** » 10 Apr 2008, 08:31

I read those articles on the nuclear capabilities, very interesting stuff.

The solar furnace could be true, IF they have other mirrors that focus on the big one (which I assume they do - look at the shadows on the big mirror). The one thing that I have to say though, those Uzbekistanis need to use better paint...

Hman · Post by **Hman** » 10 Apr 2008, 08:39

jamin_za wrote:Moran

Crissy Moran?

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 10 Apr 2008, 09:47

No.

Youra Moran

zerubabel · Post by **zerubabel** » 10 Apr 2008, 11:15

jamin_za wrote:
zerubabel wrote:
jamin_za wrote:We are a nuclear power.

[img]O%20RLY[/img]
YA RLY, you simpleton.

We have 2 nuclear power plants - that alone should give you a clue.

We are also the only country to ever voluntarily dismantle our nuclear arsenal. Back in the bad 'ol days SA about 6 nuclear warheads statshed out in the Karroo - just in case.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/rsa/nuke/index.html

Moran

Nice article there, but it still doesn't solve the reality of ORLY

As the article stated, we dismantled our nuclear bombs soon before the ANC came into power, and we do not posess any nukeyoolar weapons anymore.

I didn't know we had nuclear power plants in the Cape (with the incompetence we have in SA, I sure as hell ain't returning to the Cape!!), but we still aren't a nuclear power. That would entail us posessing nuclear weapons.

To end off, I'd like to recommend you get a brain, moran

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 10 Apr 2008, 11:25

Are you baiting me, or does your faggotry really know no bounds

Of course we are a nuclear power. We had nukes, and we can build them again. Hell, we still have all the parts of the dismantled warheads buried in the Karroo. The infrastructure to build more is still in place, all the closed manufacturing conversion and enrichment facilities are still there and can be brought out of mothballs. I'm sure Denel would be more than happy to help out.

http://cns.miis.edu/research/safrica/facil.htm

zerubabel · Post by **zerubabel** » 10 Apr 2008, 11:43

"We had nukes back in the day, so we're a nuclear power today"

Website · Post by **hamin_aus** » 10 Apr 2008, 11:49

We have the capability, therefore we are a nuclear power

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762462.html

zerubabel · Post by **zerubabel** » 10 Apr 2008, 11:55

jamin_za wrote:We have the capability, therefore we are a nuclear power

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762462.html

No, you just proved my point.

If you use primary school reading skills, you can apply the main heading to each subsection...
Therefore, "Acknowledged Nuclear Weapons Capability", "Unacknowledged Nuclear Weapons Capability", countries that are "Seeking Nuclear Weapons Capability" and probably have it already, and last but not least those countries who have "abandoned nuclear weapons capability".

Just cause South Africa is on the same website as America, doesn't make it a nuclear power. That website shows you that while South Africa was at one stage a nuclear power, it is not anymore

Key word here: Abandoned