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by evincarofautumn 3774 days ago
It’s also a 660-pound object installed in a drop ceiling nearly a meter thick. You’d need very high ceilings to start with, and you’d better hope it’s installed well. Not to mention that it consumes up to 300W of power.
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Well sunlight is around 1kW per square meter energy density, so it doesn't surprise me in the least that this takes .3kW to simulate sunlight.
I wonder if they could glue their magic scattering pane to a mirror and lit it with a lamp from underneath (from inside the room that's being lit.

... or even make el cheapo version with just bluish tinted mirror.