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The largest cruise ship ever built arrived in the English port of Southampton on Tuesday, ready to set sail on its maiden voyage.
This array of 149 Xenon short-arc lamps is called Synlight, and it's designed to be an artificial sun. Invented by the German Aerospace Centre, or DLR, Synlight can produce up to 10,000 times the intensity of natural sunlight experienced on Earth. Researchers and scientists turned on their machine for Ruptly in Juelich on Monday. The Synlight array measures 45 by 52 feet but all the powerful bulbs are designed to concentrate their light radiation on a small space which measures just 8 inches by 8 inches. Its inventors claim that the synthetic sun can generated temperatures up to 3000 degrees Celsius and beyond. Synlight was created with a specific purpose in mind. Hydrogen fuel, considered by many to be the fuel of the future because it emits no carbon when burned, is derived by breaking water down into its base atoms. However, this process requires a huge amount of heat energy. Synlight is meant to power the reaction to obtain hyrdogen fuel in a way that uses as little fossil fuels as possible. The high power array also has potential uses in other fields as well, including scientific research and commercial applications which require an intense source of heat. The project cost about 3.5 million euro to buid, funding which was provided by the German government and automaker BMW.
Spectacular video captures Draken Harald Hårfagre completing the final stages of Expedition America.
The world's largest container ship CSL Globe docks for the first time at a British port. Elly Park reports.
'Top Gun: Maverick' stars including Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Parnell, Glen Powell and Greg Tarzan Davis, plus filmmakers Joseph Kosinski and Christopher McQuarrie, and musician Kenny Loggins chat about the long-awaited “Top Gun” sequel at the red carpet for the world premiere of the film on the USS Midway in San Diego. #TopGunMaverick #TomCruise #TopGun SUBSCRIBE to CinemaBlend's channel HERE - https://www.youtube.com/cinemablend For the latest entertainment news and analysis go here: Movie News: http://www.cinemablend.com/news.php/ Movie Reviews: http://www.cinemablend.com/reviews/ TV News: http://www.cinemablend.com/television/ Celebrity News: http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/ Superheroes: http://www.cinemablend.com/superheroes/ Movie Trailers & Film Clips: http://www.cinemablend.com/trailers/
Images from the Greek coast guard show rescuers responding to a fire that broke out on an Italian-flagged cruise ship sailing through the Mediterranean's Ionian Sea with 237 passengers and 51 crew on board IMAGES