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This is totally fucking awesome! I’ve got a thing up at https://hackaday.io/project/20591-sun-tracking-solar-steam-turbine to do something similar, but with a few different paradigms, and the idea is to compact all of this into a single-user makeable AND portable system. Ideally, I want it to be both capable of fitting reasonably into a car AND running at the same time, so you can have an electric car that charges as it drives in sunlight.
I want to take this, turn the concentrator mirror at the front upside down, and use it to melt metal!