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Are you sure about this 1000x | Are you sure about this 1000x concentration ratio stuff? Even a perfect parabola is limited by the optics. The ratio of the distance to the sun and the the distance from the bottom of the parabola to the focal point, multiplied by the size = size of image, so size of the collector divided by size of image. | ||
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Are you sure about this 1000x concentration ratio stuff? Even a perfect parabola is limited by the optics. The ratio of the distance to the sun and the the distance from the bottom of the parabola to the focal point, multiplied by the size = size of image, so size of the collector divided by size of image.