They evidently can "Melt" 
http://news.msn.com/videos/?ap=True&videoid=cca7a765-1b02-0b31-a1ca-af95d7cc6c2b&from=en-us_msnhp
They evidently can "Melt"
http://news.msn.com/videos/?ap=True&videoid=cca7a765-1b02-0b31-a1ca-af95d7cc6c2b&from=en-us_msnhp
[Insert Civil Engineer / Architect joke here]
Sincerely, Mechanical Engineer
Did he move the car so it was right in the beam as the sun moved through the sky, or did someone rotate the skyscraper for him?
I can stand in my back yard in the reflection off one of our new energy efficient windows and its downright hot. I can imagine what skyscraper could do.
Is the building or windows concave? That's the only way I can think of where the reflection of the sun could be more powerful than the thing itself.
914Driver wrote: Did he move the car so it was right in the beam as the sun moved through the sky, or did someone rotate the skyscraper for him?
Earth's rotation, etc.
Matt B Is the building or windows concave? That's the only way I can think of where the reflection of the sun could be more powerful than the thing itself.
Sun gets it from one angle, the reflection from another. It adds up.
Matt B wrote: Is the building or windows concave? That's the only way I can think of where the reflection of the sun could be more powerful than the thing itself.
Concave side-to-side and up-and-down. With mirrored window tint. And a focal point of the street!
Seems like a good place for some solar panels.
In reply to Protege2886:
As a Civil Engineer I fully blame the architect for this one!
I googled Death Ray to make a joke and this building took the first whole page.
I didn't know there were so many sunny days in England.
The Vdara in Vegas when the sun hits it just right has given people second degree burns in seconds.
The Vdara and this building in London were designed by the same guy, Rafael Vinoly...world's most sophisticated and patient pyromaniac? 
I can believe it. Here in Atlantic City, most of the casinos invest a lot in glass. If you walked down the boardwalk with the sun on one side and one of glass fronted towers on the other.... you get toasted
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