i am not a fiber optic specialist and i need to know if ultra concentrated solar energy can be transmitted through fiber optics in thick pipes over long distances. can fiber optics handle intense solar heat and light without melting?

there is a new technological field called photonics. i am not entirely familar with photons except that photons create light. i wonder about the heat itself that go in hand with light riding on photon flow. i am not completely sure about the potential of photonics to transmit light and heat together through fiber optics over long distances. photonics are generally used for signal technology like computers and communications but i often wonder about energy technology as well.

i know that fiber optics transmit light but i wonder about heat as well. solar energy is at its most efficient when heat from sunlight is utilized directly instead of being converted into trickles of electrical juices. reflect sunlight to heat indoors at the shady back sides of houses that face to the north is one good example which i am using already. it can be aluminum foil or glassless mirrors made of special treated aluminum, like durabright patented by alcoa, and things like that.

i also wonder about whether fiber optics can carry vast amounts of sun heat captured in the deserts to the colder climates during winters? or can special reflectors be able to reflect infrared heat without the glare of the sunlight?? why are we so overfocused on photovoltaics and inverters alone? think reflection and concentration! not just passive photovoltaics and unnecessary inverters and batteries that cost too much for our tax credits that will go only to the wealthy…