Built this for an engineering class in highschool, everyone else had boxes lined with tinfoil. Thanks for inspiring me to actually make something fun. Rest In Peace
Great feedback Alton! Thanks for sharing your experience, and thanks for watching all my videos :) I do appreciate that, and wish you the best in your projects!
Mate, you are a legend. I was dropping things at our local recycling shop and someone just dropped off an old projection TV. I run a local stargazing business and am looking to add some things of interest for daytime shows for schools. You're right - these TVs are heavy, but I couldn't wait to get it home and start extracting the Fresnel lens, which I did just as the sun set. Came out easily and I can't wait to try it tomorrow. The next step is the frame - I will use your design and just looked at the video - wonderful. Well explained and should be good fun putting it together.
Look through your local classifieds. Lots of times people will just give stuff away, so they don't have to go through the hassle of shipping it off themselves. I've gotten a couple of broken down cars for parts that way.
I'm thinking it would be rather neat to focus it on a closed container of water, with a hose leading the steam away to a fan (like an old computer fan). That would basically make it a souped up solar generator and I bet you can get a fair amount of juice out of that. Perhaps a future project?
Good effort Eric! I did luck out with the first one being crystal clear and focusing to a point. Later TV's I got were all different. I don't know how to tell which TV's have which lenses. Out of 5 TV's I got 2 lenses I was really happy with. The other ones are OK, but not exceptional.
I made this thing it was easy. I was very excited about this and had plans to use it as a solar forge. There was a pile of TVs in the junk yard. One of them was a projection tv. Unfortunately the lense is not only opaque but the beam is focused in a line.The temperature is 300-360 degrees. However, it is not a failure. The tv came with a sheet of dark grey plastic, and the beam from the lense is the perfect temperature for quickly softening the plastic so that I can shape it into anything I like- I used it to make a fine sheath for my diving knife. It does not burn the plastic like fire does, and because it is solar the heat penetrates the inside of opaque plastic heating the whole piece equally inside and out like a microwave. Very impressive way to quickly heat plastic to molding temp.
Thank you! It's important to note I set the camera up to watch, and I look in the camera screen, not directly at the light. Thanks for the safety concerns .. they are valid!
+RnB NerdyGeek Ahh nice one! I'm a pool guy and that didn't come to mind until I read you comment. I could use it to heat water and a lot of it. I wonder what the peak btu rating would be this idea.
Thank you! :) I don't know when I'll get a chance to play with the TEC and TEG modules you're talking about (I have a lot of projects I want to do first) but I am intrigued by your enthusiasm. Perhaps if you have a video I can watch showing what they are and how they work?
Make sure you wear eye protection people especially for fresnel lens. Even for magnifying glasses you should wear eye protection, that small dot of light can effect your eyesight over time as you'll notice that the dot of light burns an image onto your eye. So really you should wear a welders mask when using the frenel lens.
Someone did send me a link to Kipkay's video and there is a lot in common! This was made a long time before I was even notified Kipkay had a video. Not to put him down at all, because he is awesome. But this idea was inspired by Dan with GreenPowerScience.
If you have a spring cleanup in your area go drive around. Take a phillips and flat screwdriver (or cordless drill) and you can open one of these up in about 10 minutes to get what you need and not have to worry about discarding the shell of the tv. In the last month I have picked up about 10 of these lenses in my area. I grabbed all the optics too, the color from the lenses are good for over flashlights for the kids and that lense assembly you took apart, if you turn on the flashlight on your phone and put that in front of it you can get a heck of a spot light out of it. Good luck!
Managed to find one of these on the side of the road today, so I ripped it apart and ran home with the lens. As it's summer and over a hundred degrees (F), we'll certainly be having some fun with this thing.
I just saw four of your videos in a row! They are amazing!!! Just an idea I had, could you use the panel from the old TV to melt brass and tin in your backyard furnace? Anyway, thanks for the videos man!
if this setup can heat up water in minutes using the sun, than why we don't have power plants with industrial sized versions of this? it would boil water 100% cleanly. or is this in use already?
Now I know I've been on the internet too f---ing long. One of the first 'viral' videos i ever saw was the SGI staff using a giant Fresnel lens to melt and burn stuff in their parking lot. Has it really been 30 years?!
The speakers look like they are made by Fostex and have an extremely wide range. Well, unsurprising, coming from a Japanese TV that used to cost a fortune. They are worth something on their own.
I just took apart my 15 year old rear projection TV apart, which as downstairs in my now updated totally awesome 4K UHD projector in my theater. I did the same as you, I fresnel lens and also took apart all three projector tubes to get the magnify glasses. I can reach temps up to 2500° with the fresnel lens. I use it for outdoor cooking and also to get a bonfire started before that huge yellow ball of fire sets for the night sky. Lol
MordeaniisChaos I was making a joke. I don't expect people to get these to start a fire. I don't think this would be for lazy people though :P The screens can get pretty heavy, so I don't expect a lazy person to carry it in the wilderness.
I found the King to have very informative and interesting video education. Mostly I liked the fact that some were family approved. There is humor and awe. I really enjoyed learning something from just watching these videos. Thanks! :)
Calvin Phelps ha ha, yeah but you could defocus the lens a bit like he did in the video to "Spread" the heat out and lower it. Btw, I was thinking about this again and why wouldn't it be possible to power a steam engine with this? Couldn't you build a cast iron boiler and focus a couple of these lenses at it to get it to produce steam and run an engine hooked up to a generator? Someone needs to try this, we already do it on larger scales (see the solar array in Arizona).
95TurboSol That's a really good point, I also feel like this could be used on a very destructive level, like what if someone hooked up a mirror or something and turned it into a laser death ray.
Awesome The Egyptians used this technology to melt rocks. One minor criticism, your frame is wood and could catch fire if the kids got hold.of it. Fascinating stuff Thank you
People were throwing these rear projection TVs away, then the scrap metal scroungers would come along and gut the old televisions and leave the Fresnel lenses laying around. As the sun would change angles the abandoned lenses were starting fires in the alleys at random. Fences, dry grass brush, trash, pretty much anything. I have 15 or 20 of these lenses tucked between the shed and the house now, out of the sun.
Kipkay did this years ago which actually makes me feel uneasy because I don't want to accuse Grant of stealing this, but Kipkay did make a video about this and he even said he was going to save the speakers.
What kind of projection TV will contain the Fresnel lens? Is it only CRT rear-projection TV? Or will newer technology work also, like DLP, LCD read projector or LCOS rear projector?
+Jacob Bennett the problem with that is that the heat from this lens is too much and melts the solar panel, however, there are special solar panels with mini magnifying lenses for each solar cell that achieve your idea.
+Truvak T - I was wondering if you could use it in one of the hot air exchange boxes that people make. I would deliberately put it so it's out of focus a bit to not hit it's optimum temp but still get more out of it than an ordinary chunk of glass would. Hopefully that makes sense.
Khanh Duong Phan there's also the problem that this focuses the energy into heat. great for burning or melting things, but not great for moving things. to use this as a power source for anything would have about the same effect as merely lighting a match as a power source. you need more than just that, as heat alone isn't a power source. also, a much more effective and (based of price for the amount of energy required) nuclear power is much better than fossil fuels, but that doesn't make it a better alternative...
tubefan90000 You obviously never heard for Stirling engines with solar power :) Try to search it in Google :) They use Magnifiers, Lenses, Mirrors.. All kind of stuff to concentrate Solar power and turn it in to energy. Well It is not the best way, but it can work for some people with some building / mechanical skills
Hey, have you ever thought about pairing this panel with a boiler, steam engine and electrical generator? The thought being to use the panel you have, focus it on a boiler which delivers steam to a small steam engine which in turn uses a drive shaft/belt to deliver the energy to an electrical generator? Would be a cool experiment (pardon the pun). My only concern would be the pressure associated with the 2000 degree cooker on the boiler which was addressed by governors well over a century ago. Have heard of people using parabolic mirrors to focus the beam on the boiler, but those look spooky to me as the hot water is up in the air and focused skyward rather than downward as your cooker shows. I could see placing the magnifying lens of your cooker on a gamble that would track for the angle of the sun ensuring a consistent heat on the boiler. If you used distilled water, you would recirculate condensed water back into the system to be reheated reducing deposits in the boiler and piping.
+Eli P. The amount of energy coming from the sun is always the same, even if you 'magnify' it is still the same amount of energy, just distributed over a smaller area-hence the extremely high temperatures(1000oC+) seen in this video. The 'efficiency' of a solar thermal power plant has nothing to do with the amount of energy coming in, only how much of this is converted to electrical power. Which has more to do with the thermodynamics and physical constraints of the electrical generator, etc However magnifying glasses would be beneficial if the focal point of the power plant needed to be extremely small. Although usually they are large as you don't need extremely high temperatures to produce electrical power. (steam=100oC, molten salt~600oC)
iMattLewis thank you for all this info. However I was referring to all the space they take using mirrors, they could have less mirrors with magnifying glasses, and make the receiver more resistance to higher temperatures so the molten salt doesn't evaporate but melt it.
Eli P. But by making the receiver more resistant you are decreasing the overall efficiency of the system(solar energy>electrical energy) In the end the more space you have occupied by mirrors and/or magnifying glasses aimed at the focal point the more sunlight you can capture and the more electrical energy you can produce.
+iMattLewis The focal point doesn't matter unless the focal point is the most efficient point on the solar panel. The problem isn't how much power is coming in with solar panels it is how efficient the solar panel is. Also I have heard that even if solar panels do get more energy with more heat/direct power coming in there is a point at witch it would be inefficient or obviously damage the solar panel once the thermal energy has been focused into a specific smaller area.
Does this concept work with a small Fresnel lens, like a reading magnifier? This would be useful in combination with a Peltier as a makeshift solar panel
Great idea & video. I like to help out the homeless when I can, and it's starting to get cold and snow here in Canada. I have 2 approx 42" old tv's and am wondering if there are any other tricks that you know of using these lenses that could benefit their cold souls? Thank You
Built this for an engineering class in highschool, everyone else had boxes lined with tinfoil. Thanks for inspiring me to actually make something fun. Rest In Peace
Do the boxes have to be certain dimensions?
Nope, the sole design criteria was to use sunlight to bake a cupcake, the box lined with foil was a primer and most everyone else stuck with that
I miss you my friend, still cannot believe your genius is no longer with us.
Did he die?
@noobs when
@@Theaprilcrew A little more than a year ago.
@@DANGJOS oh
@@billclinton3572 yeah last uear
Great feedback Alton! Thanks for sharing your experience, and thanks for watching all my videos :) I do appreciate that, and wish you the best in your projects!
I live in England so could you do something that involves rain power instead :)
+Goldenstorm3 dear chap, you won the UK internet.
Ikr
Maybe leave some cups in your garden BOOM fresh water
i did that once ( i live in seattle LOL) with some knex pieces and a plastic bowl shaped lamp shade
i do not know
If you collect it in a small clear bag you can make fire that way also !
[✓] Small Fresnel Lens: amzn.to/2cEa9Sy
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random"
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random"
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random"
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" try to melt the dry ice please
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" hi grant love your videos
Mate, you are a legend. I was dropping things at our local recycling shop and someone just dropped off an old projection TV. I run a local stargazing business and am looking to add some things of interest for daytime shows for schools. You're right - these TVs are heavy, but I couldn't wait to get it home and start extracting the Fresnel lens, which I did just as the sun set. Came out easily and I can't wait to try it tomorrow. The next step is the frame - I will use your design and just looked at the video - wonderful. Well explained and should be good fun putting it together.
"so please be careful"
*puts hand behind burning glass that blows up seconds later*
Hardihood Stove gas can burn things up too.
lol
My lighter can burn paper ha outmatched
"Thank this lady for donating her TV"
"The price was right"
So did she donate it or sell it? lol
It was sold for 0$
The price was perfect for both of them!!! Aka £0/$0/€0/¥0
Look through your local classifieds. Lots of times people will just give stuff away, so they don't have to go through the hassle of shipping it off themselves. I've gotten a couple of broken down cars for parts that way.
I'm thinking it would be rather neat to focus it on a closed container of water, with a hose leading the steam away to a fan (like an old computer fan). That would basically make it a souped up solar generator and I bet you can get a fair amount of juice out of that.
Perhaps a future project?
1. Acquire magnifier
2. Launch into space
3. Set fire to crops across the earth
4. Conquer planet
Pretty sure the Nazis planned to do that
I know, I expected someone to point that out.
im german an i agree that we planed that
Good effort Eric! I did luck out with the first one being crystal clear and focusing to a point. Later TV's I got were all different. I don't know how to tell which TV's have which lenses. Out of 5 TV's I got 2 lenses I was really happy with. The other ones are OK, but not exceptional.
I'm glad you're finding some value in these projects :) All the best!
- Daddy, daddy, I pooped my pants!;(
- Oh good son, we can save it for a future project!
"I'm going to take these speakers because I could use them for something. Maybe I'll build a sonic weapon or something like that."
Lol. Right?
I made this thing it was easy. I was very excited about this and had plans to use it as a solar forge. There was a pile of TVs in the junk yard. One of them was a projection tv. Unfortunately the lense is not only opaque but the beam is focused in a line.The temperature is 300-360 degrees. However, it is not a failure. The tv came with a sheet of dark grey plastic, and the beam from the lense is the perfect temperature for quickly softening the plastic so that I can shape it into anything I like- I used it to make a fine sheath for my diving knife. It does not burn the plastic like fire does, and because it is solar the heat penetrates the inside of opaque plastic heating the whole piece equally inside and out like a microwave. Very impressive way to quickly heat plastic to molding temp.
Looks like people found a new way to kill vampires
Rather to burn them.
Spontaneous Combustion!!!
lol
lol
Thank you! It's important to note I set the camera up to watch, and I look in the camera screen, not directly at the light. Thanks for the safety concerns .. they are valid!
i found one about a half mile away from home the other day, couldn't get a truck, so i PUSHED it home.
O.O
Savage.
didnt have any, well, couldn't find any
shoulda brought a wagon and a rope. so you can ride behind it.
Awesome!
i used this to heat my kids' blowup pool. They no longer have feet, but the water was warm
+RnB NerdyGeek Ahh nice one! I'm a pool guy and that didn't come to mind until I read you comment. I could use it to heat water and a lot of it. I wonder what the peak btu rating would be this idea.
RnB NerdyGeek that is very sad 😭
@@AxanarGaming speaking of heating water is there enough energy to boil the water into steam to turn a turbine to create electrical energy?
@@bmxscape yes my dude
This was always my favorite project of his. What an amazing and outstanding piece of free energy.
This was the first video of his I watched. You've helped me through lots of hard times. RIP.
Awesome :) I can imagine the fun you had .. and am jealous you had such free access to a goldmine of scrapped materials!
Thank you! :) I don't know when I'll get a chance to play with the TEC and TEG modules you're talking about (I have a lot of projects I want to do first) but I am intrigued by your enthusiasm. Perhaps if you have a video I can watch showing what they are and how they work?
Miss these type of vids hope you rest well and easy 🙁
Make sure you wear eye protection people especially for fresnel lens. Even for magnifying glasses you should wear eye protection, that small dot of light can effect your eyesight over time as you'll notice that the dot of light burns an image onto your eye. So really you should wear a welders mask when using the frenel lens.
what's free
sunglasses are not enougth? (not the 2$ kind, real ones with uv filters)
Someone did send me a link to Kipkay's video and there is a lot in common! This was made a long time before I was even notified Kipkay had a video. Not to put him down at all, because he is awesome. But this idea was inspired by Dan with GreenPowerScience.
Can this be used to dispose of bodies?
Why is that a question?
DreAndreas Just wondering.
Aoto Fisher You don't "Just Wonder" of disposing bodies.
DreAndreas Maybe I find the topic of disposing bodies helpful.
Aoto Fisher You're agreeing to my question to your question.
Also, what exactly makes it "Helpful"?
where can i buy this kind of dad?
ebay
you can be one to your kids
ebay though...everything is on ebay
Eskettiittt dating apps, just open up and say it and there you have it a dad like this lol😂😂😂
Eskettiittt ವ
You could've melted the woman who donated the tv
lmfao
If you have a spring cleanup in your area go drive around. Take a phillips and flat screwdriver (or cordless drill) and you can open one of these up in about 10 minutes to get what you need and not have to worry about discarding the shell of the tv. In the last month I have picked up about 10 of these lenses in my area. I grabbed all the optics too, the color from the lenses are good for over flashlights for the kids and that lense assembly you took apart, if you turn on the flashlight on your phone and put that in front of it you can get a heck of a spot light out of it. Good luck!
This is that "new power source that the energy companies don't want you to figure out about!!!" :D
for real tho
i'm cancelling my subscriptions!
Looks like i know what to use when i'm building my deathray.
An old concave antenna and some mirrors would do the job too!
Thank you! :)
1:31 if it's noon the sun will be burnt
burnception
Being this stupid
Managed to find one of these on the side of the road today, so I ripped it apart and ran home with the lens. As it's summer and over a hundred degrees (F), we'll certainly be having some fun with this thing.
We miss you king 👑
Enjoy the video dont comment stupitidy
What a beautiful mind. Gone too soon.
R.I.P he was so young😞
@@Juleee188 unfortunately yes :(
Golden Puppies paramotoring accident
I miss him so much he was an inspiration to Alot of people
wait... who died?
@@teru797 Grant Thompson he died I believe last year
I just saw four of your videos in a row!
They are amazing!!!
Just an idea I had, could you use the panel from the old TV to melt brass and tin in your backyard furnace?
Anyway, thanks for the videos man!
if this setup can heat up water in minutes using the sun, than why we don't have power plants with industrial sized versions of this? it would boil water 100% cleanly. or is this in use already?
There are some solar farms that use mirror 'half-pipes' to heat pipes of water above them to create steam needed to turn turbines.
Josh Kavathas Some days It's not sunny.
Josh Kavathas Here is something similar, but using hot air to drive turbines. www.enviromission.com.au/EVM/content/home.html
Josh Kavathas Because the World runs on fossil fuels.
Josh Kavathas because we would basically need to turn entire regions into solar farms to power a single city.
Now I know I've been on the internet too f---ing long. One of the first 'viral' videos i ever saw was the SGI staff using a giant Fresnel lens to melt and burn stuff in their parking lot. Has it really been 30 years?!
It’s been 9 years. Anyone 2021?
My favorite video from this guy. Rest easy brother.
I can't make this, I'd probably set someone on fire.
I know I'm 2 months late, but I made one and I pretty much burnt my finger off. It was like, a few months after he made the video.
The speakers look like they are made by Fostex and have an extremely wide range. Well, unsurprising, coming from a Japanese TV that used to cost a fortune. They are worth something on their own.
I just took apart my 15 year old rear projection TV apart, which as downstairs in my now updated totally awesome 4K UHD projector in my theater. I did the same as you, I fresnel lens and also took apart all three projector tubes to get the magnify glasses.
I can reach temps up to 2500° with the fresnel lens. I use it for outdoor cooking and also to get a bonfire started before that huge yellow ball of fire sets for the night sky. Lol
So... if something like a zombie apocalypse happens (and we survive), we know the best way to make fire/kill things?
If you're really lazy, but there are much more portable, compact ways to do both.
MordeaniisChaos I was making a joke. I don't expect people to get these to start a fire. I don't think this would be for lazy people though :P The screens can get pretty heavy, so I don't expect a lazy person to carry it in the wilderness.
Vinnie Vids Then we are all doomed.
Or put it on a plane and burn a whole country.
Thales Nunes Hope you do not have a lot of free time! xD
Solar barbecue, here I come!
+It's a Llama babycue?
The tires I..I.. mean steaks are .uhhh.. great.
You're insane. I'm subscribing.
Awsome! Oh and hey bye any chance could you show us how to make a very strong electro magnet?
I found the King to have very informative and interesting video education. Mostly I liked the fact that some were family approved. There is humor and awe. I really enjoyed learning something from just watching these videos. Thanks! :)
I wonder if you could use those lenses from the projection thing to make a telescope.
With enough research, youtube, you cam do it
I don't think so, i think it's more of an magnifieng glass
Thanks Awesome Meister!
Just don't point it at the sun while you look at it. Bad things will happen.
+Tyler Marshall I guess you know this from experience :D
Anyone who is off grid could use it to heat water for hot showers, just take showers during the day :)
But ya know they would melt whatever theyre trying to heat...
Calvin Phelps
ha ha, yeah but you could defocus the lens a bit like he did in the video to "Spread" the heat out and lower it. Btw, I was thinking about this again and why wouldn't it be possible to power a steam engine with this? Couldn't you build a cast iron boiler and focus a couple of these lenses at it to get it to produce steam and run an engine hooked up to a generator? Someone needs to try this, we already do it on larger scales (see the solar array in Arizona).
95TurboSol That's a really good point, I also feel like this could be used on a very destructive level, like what if someone hooked up a mirror or something and turned it into a laser death ray.
Easy now!
95TurboSol
Guess what i found in the mail. 3:22
DEEZ NUTS
Got eem
Ikr. I'm going to save deez nuts.
Reshtreg JUST GOT IT! WHEN I PLAYED IT AGAIN. HAHA
Reshtreg best comment 10/10
Great example of, one person's trash is another person's treasure 😀 👍
I thought the part when you could see the lightbulbs was the best
dude you should totally connect the projecter lense to the bigger one..the photons will be more focused and will be like a destructive laser!!!!!
hungry children in Africa could have eaten that TV..
Lol
In fact in Africa every 60 seconds one minute passes
Leon Mustermann :O
LOL that made my day! Thx!
That's mean
4:21 pls be careful XD
whats funny ? i cant get the joke,please tell me
i saw it,lol it made my day
3:22 those Delta 51 lenses are great for your 'splinter first aid' kit
3:45 thats very similar to what i use for solar branding my arm. another fun project !
Melt dry ice with the solar scorcher...
Bacon8You You play minecraft?
The next level is the Archimedes Ship Destroyer Death Ray Thingy (yes, that is the scientific name, just don't look it up)
3:20 save DEEZ NUTS
It's not even funny.
+Alexander Giardina it's halarious
ok m8
Lol
+xuan phuc tran There truly are heroes among us. Thank you, good sir.
Grant , we all miss you , rest soundly and hopefully you can make bigger lenses in the great beyond .RIP.
My favorite video of his....RIP man
You are still missed
just a fan saying we still love u
i got one of those tv's in my shed
now i can heat my big swimming pool... sweet
NOT a good idea!
why?
lmao... probably melt the concrete floor aye lol
ya lololol
***** *Accidentally swims under where the ray is aimed at*
man.. that free T.V. made how much on youtube? :3
Awesome
The Egyptians used this technology to melt rocks. One minor criticism, your frame is wood and could catch fire if the kids got hold.of it. Fascinating stuff
Thank you
Looks really cool yet it's a really simple system. This has great potential for industrial use.
Can you use the lenses to make a light saber?
3:22 Deez nuts
?
XD HA!
+Ryan Doherty my class mates say that I know what that means
HAH! GOTEEEEEEM!!!
+OP F2H it means balls
People were throwing these rear projection TVs away, then the scrap metal scroungers would come along and gut the old televisions and leave the Fresnel lenses laying around. As the sun would change angles the abandoned lenses were starting fires in the alleys at random. Fences, dry grass brush, trash, pretty much anything. I have 15 or 20 of these lenses tucked between the shed and the house now, out of the sun.
Seth B thats awesome
Seth B you're planning on starting a really big fire somewhere later?
racketman2u the biggest fire the North has ever seen :3
Asif Aziz lol i see we got a Game of Thrones fan!
Kookoo koo i confess. yes guilty! lol
You are the only channel that's interesting you're amazing. Now I want to be a scientist when I'm older! Great job!!!
Kipkay did this years ago which actually makes me feel uneasy because I don't want to accuse Grant of stealing this, but Kipkay did make a video about this and he even said he was going to save the speakers.
3:22 GOT EM!
Didn't know Hugh mungus had one of these tvs
I thought I was the only one who thought that! Long live the Mungus!
Keith Ode lol
This is a pretty awesome trick. 1:40 ...humping the tv up..?
i remember watching this video as a kid, crazy nostalgia
What kind of projection TV will contain the Fresnel lens? Is it only CRT rear-projection TV? Or will newer technology work also, like DLP, LCD read projector or LCOS rear projector?
Did you ever find out?
3:22 I'm gonna save DEEZ NUTS 'n' boltz.
What would happen to solar panels
Fandom cop oh. ......
burn?
no
I burnt a hole in my cat by accidental, thanks grant!
IN your CAT?
dude wtf
*So sad that u didn't get to do these future projects😔😔. ......now your in heaven maybe building other stuff*
This was the video that introduced me to TKOR years ago
Put This on top of your solar panel = UNLIMITED POWERRRRRR
+Jacob Bennett the problem with that is that the heat from this lens is too much and melts the solar panel, however, there are special solar panels with mini magnifying lenses for each solar cell that achieve your idea.
+Jacob Bennett But it is possible to use it to burn water and create steam for an instant pollution free generator
+Jordan Tan
YES THIS WOULD BE TGE RIGHT WAY TO GO .
I AGREE WITH YOUR THOUGHTS
+my self Thanks! Going to try to build one in the future
+Truvak T - I was wondering if you could use it in one of the hot air exchange boxes that people make. I would deliberately put it so it's out of focus a bit to not hit it's optimum temp but still get more out of it than an ordinary chunk of glass would. Hopefully that makes sense.
"The sun is a deadly Lazer"
If they can do that with a TV surely they can use this to make energy instead of fossil fuels?
I mean the sheet plastic stuff, I can't be assed with correct terminology, because ya' know. its the internet.
Khanh Duong Phan there's also the problem that this focuses the energy into heat. great for burning or melting things, but not great for moving things. to use this as a power source for anything would have about the same effect as merely lighting a match as a power source. you need more than just that, as heat alone isn't a power source. also, a much more effective and (based of price for the amount of energy required) nuclear power is much better than fossil fuels, but that doesn't make it a better alternative...
tubefan90000
You obviously never heard for Stirling engines with solar power :) Try to search it in Google :) They use Magnifiers, Lenses, Mirrors.. All kind of stuff to concentrate Solar power and turn it in to energy. Well It is not the best way, but it can work for some people with some building / mechanical skills
Georgi Ivanov well, a Stirling engine is not just one magnifying glass, so still, just what he made in this video would not get a car moving
tubefan90000 you can use a water system with something like a turbine. And it wont be so hard to build.
This is exactly what I was looking for !
Thank you for advising me from up there 👌🏾❤
That is so cool! Have you done a solar oven project yet? Because all those that i looked at looks like they stood too close with the camera
who came back to this video in 2017 after watching the solar scorcher lighting up thermite?
What site do you go to to get the free stuff
Try Damplips its a good site for many items for experiments and research.
Kipkay did this like 4 years before this video. You are late.
flyguyee i agree like kipkay owns science >.>
flyguyee
when i saw ur pic before i saw ur name i was like OMG ITS SYNDICATE but then i got a closer look..
Ok
Brayden Dumont Maaan. I haven't watched a syndicate video in a couple of YEARS. I don't think I'll be able to catch up on all of that.
010Uzumaki010 the syndicate project?
Hey, have you ever thought about pairing this panel with a boiler, steam engine and electrical generator? The thought being to use the panel you have, focus it on a boiler which delivers steam to a small steam engine which in turn uses a drive shaft/belt to deliver the energy to an electrical generator? Would be a cool experiment (pardon the pun). My only concern would be the pressure associated with the 2000 degree cooker on the boiler which was addressed by governors well over a century ago. Have heard of people using parabolic mirrors to focus the beam on the boiler, but those look spooky to me as the hot water is up in the air and focused skyward rather than downward as your cooker shows. I could see placing the magnifying lens of your cooker on a gamble that would track for the angle of the sun ensuring a consistent heat on the boiler. If you used distilled water, you would recirculate condensed water back into the system to be reheated reducing deposits in the boiler and piping.
Imagine taking this to Arizona in the summer and burning stuff with it.
now that would have LIT up everything
How you think the ancient Egyptians cut granite stock blocks 😂
HAHAHA
I wonder if I could use this and the molten salt turbine to get more power than a solar panel of equal size.
Meep Changeling This has been my question, why aren't they using magnifying glasses to maximize the efficiency of thermal solar power plants.
+Eli P. The amount of energy coming from the sun is always the same, even if you 'magnify' it is still the same amount of energy, just distributed over a smaller area-hence the extremely high temperatures(1000oC+) seen in this video.
The 'efficiency' of a solar thermal power plant has nothing to do with the amount of energy coming in, only how much of this is converted to electrical power. Which has more to do with the thermodynamics and physical constraints of the electrical generator, etc
However magnifying glasses would be beneficial if the focal point of the power plant needed to be extremely small. Although usually they are large as you don't need extremely high temperatures to produce electrical power. (steam=100oC, molten salt~600oC)
iMattLewis thank you for all this info. However I was referring to all the space they take using mirrors, they could have less mirrors with magnifying glasses, and make the receiver more resistance to higher temperatures so the molten salt doesn't evaporate but melt it.
Eli P. But by making the receiver more resistant you are decreasing the overall efficiency of the system(solar energy>electrical energy)
In the end the more space you have occupied by mirrors and/or magnifying glasses aimed at the focal point the more sunlight you can capture and the more electrical energy you can produce.
+iMattLewis The focal point doesn't matter unless the focal point is the most efficient point on the solar panel. The problem isn't how much power is coming in with solar panels it is how efficient the solar panel is.
Also I have heard that even if solar panels do get more energy with more heat/direct power coming in there is a point at witch it would be inefficient or obviously damage the solar panel once the thermal energy has been focused into a specific smaller area.
Praise the Sun \😌/
☀️☀️☀️🌞🌞🌞
when are you going to do vlogs
liooooon!
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im not praising the sun in california i woke up under my blanket and it was like 100F lol
Does this concept work with a small Fresnel lens, like a reading magnifier? This would be useful in combination with a Peltier as a makeshift solar panel
Great idea & video. I like to help out the homeless when I can, and it's starting to get cold and snow here in Canada. I have 2 approx 42" old tv's and am wondering if there are any other tricks that you know of using these lenses that could benefit their cold souls? Thank You
You should've removed the screen and left the TV on the woman's driveway.
+Theo Volz they're not assholes. thats why they didnt.
Why should they have done that?