One more thing @Baluncore , you mentioned that rear silvered mirrors or ones with selective coating would reflect light but not the heat. I tried googling that a bit but could not find more information. Can you please provide more info about those mirrors?
Thank you @Baluncore and @Rive
From what you mentioned, it seems that my initial understanding that a convex mirror's reflected light area is wider than a regular mirror due to its bulging outwards is incorrect. Rather, i would get a much smaller reflected light area vs regular mirrors. Did I...
Hello @Drakkith
Thank you for the input!
Actually I meant convex, not concave. The idea (if I am not mistaken) is that convex mirrors will illuminate light to a wider area and not focus the light and hence, i would not have to worry about too much heat generated to a small area.
Where I...
Wow! Thanks for all the replies!
I will try to address all the points made.
@Nugatory , the purpose is to provide illumination to our living room/kitchen area that is otherwise dark and needs lamps to be turned on during the day, particularly during the winter months.
As for your safety...
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I am starting a project to get direct sunlight onto the house by placing convex mirrors on the outside stone fence of the backyard since it is the only place of my property that is not shaded by other houses in the neighborhood. For that, I need to calculate the size of the mirrors...