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renrutal | 4 years ago

> set to the equivalent output of two suns...

I didn't realize we have achieved a Kardashev Type II civilization already :)

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nine_k|4 years ago

Achieving the effect locally for a few milliseconds has been possible for like 70 years now.

Damn hard to get a license for that nowadays, though, no matter how important your science is.

rjbwork|4 years ago

Is...this a nuclear explosion joke?

rikkipitt|4 years ago

Haha, very good.

In fact, we had some equipment similar to that on this site https://solarlight.com/product_category/products/solar-simul...

Basically a super bright light source with a similar spectral output to our sun. A roughly 1x1cm solar cell in a nitrogen filled chamber is wired up to check the output under the incident light. Very cool production process. I was extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to help with the research.