Laser technology and free energy question

[Decibellistics]

I have a good friend who is extremely interested in laser technology. He has said he wants to experiment in making them, which is a pretty huge endeavor considering the electrical engineering that would go into it. Unless you're creating a neon chamber and a co2 but even then you would still need a power source.

Though I digress...
I had asked him, since a laser is basically a perfect pure beam of light, would it be possible to have massive amounts of lasers beaming at a solar panel to create electricity. That and, some high wattage lasers will flat out burn through things/ cause heat. Is there a way to harness the heat of a laser and create electricity somehow....Just wondering if any of you fellow techies have any cool interesting stuff on the topic of laser technologies and or their application in free energy.

Ciao!

[Steven]

Actually, with the current public technology available, the power needed to feed the lasers will exceed the power produced by the panels.

Personally, I would explore magnetism to search for over unity devices.

Namaste, Steven

[Decibellistics]

absolutely, I was thinking about that pretty extensively. With magnetics, no additional power once it's kicked on....with lasers you'll need a continuous source.

Good call steven

[Luke]

Laws of thermodynamics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics) still haven't been dismantled.

All the power you deliver on target need to be generated somewhere and power lost due traveling through air too. Way I see it, you can transfer (some) of energy, but you do not generate it that way. Same with hydrogen for example.

Medium not Source.

EDIT: I see Steven beat me to that :) thx :)

[Studeo]

Concentration of sunlight by mirrors focused onto a thermal solar collector turning water to steam to run generators has been around for years. The next stage is to base solar collectors in orbit and beam the energy down to earth based recievers.

[Decibellistics]

LOL, ****ing genius.

Yeah I'm quite a fledgling...more of a dreamer than anything else with regard to the extreme technicality and the such.....but wicked interested. mmmmmm transduction lol.

I am thoroughly grateful for your responses.

[tone3jaguar]

The efficiency of lasers has increased dramatically in the last few years. Even so, the power to run one is not even close to a 1:1 ratio. It takes about 5 watts of energy to produce 1 watt of output from the most efficient laser diodes available today.

[Elandiel BernElve]

In my opinion laser technology isn't suited to provide energy. It's a technology that when energy is infinitely available can be applied to all sorts of technological facets.

Navigation systems
Medical systems
Construction systems
Mining systems
Production systems
Information systems
All from molecular to large scale level

Laser technology is applied science

[Strat]

Concentration of sunlight by mirrors focused onto a thermal solar collector turning water to steam to run generators has been around for years. The next stage is to base solar collectors in orbit and beam the energy down to earth based recievers.

This is actually a really fun thing to toy around with. If you're handy with tools you can build one of these (stirling engines) with around-the-house objects. You can find free plans online.