Germany Synlight turns on world's largest artificial sun

[BelieveNothing]

[Jlabute]

Wow, a 60 million watt light. That'll cost a minimum of $20,000/hour to operate in Germany as they charge for electrical power.

[Fancy]

By focusing the entire array on a single 20-by-20 centimetre spot, scientists from the German Aerospace Centre, or DLR, will be able to produce the equivalent of 10,000 times the amount of solar radiation that would normally shine on the same surface.

Creating such furnace-like conditions — with temperatures of up to 3,000 degrees Celsius — is key to testing novel ways of making hydrogen, according to Bernhard Hoffschmidt, the director of DLR's Institute for Solar Research.

Many consider hydrogen to be the fuel of the future because it produces no carbon emissions when burned, meaning it does not add to global warming.

But while hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, it is rare on Earth.

One way to manufacture it is to split water into its two components — the other being oxygen — using electricity in a process called electrolysis.

But the Synlight researchers hope to bypass the electricity stage and instead use the immense heat generated by the experiment to set off a reaction to produce hydrogen fuel.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-24/g ... un/8382510

[maryjane48]

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/phys.org/ne ... an-lab.amp

[BelieveNothing]

it would seem NASA has one too

[BelieveNothing]

I love the play on words

SYN LIGHT

SIN LIGHT

The Creator created the Sun

The sinners created the false Sun

NICE!

[Fancy]

Synergy: the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.

Light: sun

Synlight - yup great play on words

[BelieveNothing]

Synergy: the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.; synergism.

Light: sun

Synlight - yup great play on words

I think it refers to "Synthetic"

I made the effort to find out what "SYN" in "Synlight" is short for - yet I am unable to verify at this time.