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Grant Thompson's Insane 'Solar Scorcher'

By Rain Noe - November 28, 2013

in Sustainable Design

Today is Thanksgiving here in the U.S., when we all give thanks that the heavens have provided us with the Kardashians, a bitterly bifurcated government and wildly diverging views on firearms. We celebrate these things by cooking lots of food, most of it in ovens. But if more of us were like Grant Thompson, a.k.a. The King of Random, we could heat our meals by harnessing the sun's power.

Inveterate tinkerer Thompson has 46 million hits on YouTube for good reason: Because he does crazy shit like snagging a free projection TV on Craigslist and turning the screen—which is essentially an enormous magnifiying glass—into an absurdly powerful, eco-friendly death ray capable of heating things to 2000 degrees Farenheit. Observe:

Even better, he shows us how he did it:

Is it dangerous? Of course it is! This is America, baby!

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Thijmen

11 years ago

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Crazy cool, but equally dangerous. 2000 degrees and he lets his kids near it (not to speak of directly pouring gas into the focal point).
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Rodrigo

11 years ago

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I think that is a Fresnel lens.. very cool way to focus solar light!
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Paljoey

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If you look up on Youtube the channel: GreenPowerScience you can find many other videos centered around the sunlight and things of this nature.
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