Effective use of natural sunlight in a habitat.

--- In spacesettlers, "ANTIcarrot" wrote:

> This has come up before. At 10W/fibre, 300 fibres represents 3kW of
> heat. If there are more than a thousand people cooking at the same
> time, you're running into Boeing Airborne Laser power levels.

If more than a thousand people are cooking at the same time using some
other method, how much power is being used?

> I believe the last time it was pointed out that a broken electrical
> wire short circuits, but a broken optical fibre melts things and
> people.

And a broken water main floods the streets and a broken gas main sends
flames shooting into the air. Engineer around it. There should be a
way to automatically shut off light to a fiber that isn't delivering
it to where it should be going.

> And having recently installed a 10kW electrical shower, and the
> needed wiring, you are out of your tiny mind if you think it's going
> to be even remotely practical to install a wire 'less than 2cm in
> diameter'!

The walls of my apartment have lots of wires a lot smaller than 2 cm
in diameter. I can turn my head to the left and see an extension cord
less than 1 cm in diameter. Even my coax cable is in the 5 mm range.