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kurble06/16/20251 replyview on HN

That's the thing, sunlight is collimated. It only gets diffuse once it reflects of a diffuse surface.


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nkrisc06/16/2025

Fair enough, poor choice of words on my part. What I meant was concentrated further (in terms of energy per area) than the typical concentration received at the surface of the Earth.