Solar "Death Ray": Power of 5000 suns!

[hymiehymie]

Very cool. Good work!

[flashfire320]

i feel bad for whoever walks in front of this lol

[pleasantanomaly]

TODAY IS THE DAY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Oh wait.... There's overcast skies.

[destinystruth]

I'm calling the police.

[TechnicianMad]

@destinystruth Snitch

[xbox3601194]

Im pretty sure one sun would do it...

[aguilartwelve]

I would not feel safe with this guy and his weapon of mass destruction living next door to me lol.

[SpaceCops1983]

This experiment received approval from the MythBusters???

[Vurquiza]

when you burn concrete your hands are very close to the light focus and it burns so fast

approach would be dangerous to your hand the spotlight?

[72TheScarface]

Your Hands....you will lose them soon

[devilsvenumjr]

Also, If this wasnt as focused couldnt it be used for tanning?

[devilsvenumjr]

So would this be how Archimedes did it?

[L4cerda11]

Olokooooo, Quero Um Desses sauahsuashuash

[RicardoBatistaPassos]

Why am i watching this at 2:30 am, what am i doing with my life?

[knucklehand]

@RicardoBatistaPassos I'm watching this 5:45 AM =)

[JOSHSKORN]

Was the R23000 ever built? If so, link?

[7HeitorAveiro]

can burn your hand?

[Puntzour]

i dont understand how he have the power of 5k suns...

[2000Teris]

realy small mirors!

[Blast8Bits]

Congratulations for your hard work, Eric! But can you tell me if have you ever tryied to toast some meat? Or flesh? =P

[EricJacqmain]

@Blast8Bits Hotdogs yes. it can burn them just like wood, but dial back the focus and it will cook them nicely.

[gilvanx8]

bom pra fazer um churrasco

[MatheusMK3]

You can try putting a lens (like magnification ones) at certain position to increase the heating power, like what happens when you put one over dry leaves under sun...

[owais306]

put your hand their

[JensonBUTTONS]

"Destroyed in a storage shed fire" Lol

[TheCrashMove]

Solar grill.

[minimaxj]

I'd like to spark a fat joint with that thing

[chipbell1234]

Very good, I have two of these reflectors and plan on coating them with mirror film soon in hopes of using them to melt and mold aluminum.

[WhoCaresAboutMe77]

You need a magnified glass to consecrated the sun even more.

[Arazand]

I would use this to boil water and let the steam rise through a generator giving me a lot of electrical energy. Only to find a way for the parabola to track the suns movement across the sky... Combine this with a wind turbine and you could live with at least having to buy less electricity or ever be able to live without having to buy electricity for several days. Maybe even sell it back into the network. :D

[charivari100]

@Arazand you can make the parabola track the sun by using a ring of photo-diodes around the aimpoint. like this (O are diodes, X is the aimpoint

OOO

OXO

OOO

if the sun hits one of the diodes, it needs to trigger a motor moving that turns the dish until there's no more light on the diode. I guess 8 diodes and two motors (because they can move in two directions each) should be enough.

[etx0]

Challenge accepted.

[guitarer99]

now put a magnifying glass in front of the beam.

[mze1111]

MAKE ME SOME CHICKEN!!!

[jeffddow]

Hey im really interested in making one of these, where did you get the mirrors?

[guitarer99]

@jeffddow probably from disco balls. lots and lots of disco balls.

[ElveeKaye]

@guitarer99 When the military starts buying up the world's supply of disco balls, we will know they're up to no good.

[PeekyBooo]

Has anyone come up with a means to concentrate the light in a single path (laser), or to change the arch the mirrors sit on, dynamically?

[PeekyBooo]

Great for shooting down attack-planes spraying chemtrails.

[ymy525]

Try some pure gold on it lol

[billpage]

tesalas death ray ronald ragan star wars laser in action called HARRP as magician bob scofield at my cool church goodnewsbapistdotorg says the proof is in the pudding visual stealth ufos teslas antigravity top secret free engergy teslas usaf flying triangels ion drives pulse wave engines

[jeffddow]

hey this is really awesome, any idea how hot that is? is there an equation for heat generated by number of mirrors?

[jaredjeya]

For the metal I call some sort of incendiary. But the wood is real.

[jaredjeya]

'it got destroyed'. Maybe it never existed in the first place?

[billpage]

@jaredjeya my guess is the goverment used there own star wars laser called HARRP and aimed it from the sky to the teen boys shed now there no proff in the pudding but believing is seeing Jesus says and im seeing

[BildhauerEder]

Hi Eric, The precision of the mirror is impressive. Are you working on new ideas?

[terrifiedprojects]

totally curious how well this will work in winter on a cloudy day

[EricJacqmain]

@terrifiedprojects will not work on a cloudy day, but will work perfectly fine in winter as long as it is sunny.

[ALSPEHEIR]

@EricJacqmain What you need now is to put one of that old Television Screen Magnifiers just before the focus point to increase the final output over 9000 times!!!!

[UBGxJESTER]

and thats why im doing a research on archimedes

[Argo108]

great work!

[whisperinwindcried67]

dude..you caught your shed on fire and burned it down,didnt you?..then your dad took a baseball bat to your lil project...jk..:)..thats actually really awsome..what kind of mirror material,thickness,etc? where did you come by it?.imagine if you could maybe focus a beam down a similarly constructed tube lined with the same material..could you actually project this farther that way?..definately could help to heat water..an outside pool,perhaps..have you ever burned yourself?

[AlexRyteuBart]

What temperature are you able to achieve on a clear day?

[EricJacqmain]

@AlexRyteuBart The max temperature varies depending on the sample of material being heated. Darker materials will absorb more energy and get hotter, but most of the time the limit is the boiling/ignition point. There is no material that can withstand the focal point given the right conditions. It can destroy tungsten and evaporate carbon.

[AlexRyteuBart]

@EricJacqmain So I ask in other way... how long does it take to boil a one liter or gallon of water??

[Grandpwner99]

He made it look soooo damn big at the start. xD

[Greenman1147]

ALL HAIL THE POWER OF THE SUN!

[neutrocity]

and now the only thing left to do is make the light rays point forwards with a tiny lense at the focal point so you can burn stuff from any distance greater than the focal point and increase the scale by 1000 and you got yourself a weapon of mass destruction

[mrflyer107]

dangerou

[heavytrike]

"Unfortunately, the R5800 was completely destroyed in a storage shed fire on December 14, 2010" ahahahhah, oh the irony.

[ender2070]

5000 suns? idiot

It's one sun

[GmodAdict]

two words. Anti-Tank weapon

[massivesovietunion]

Archimedes actually built this on a bigger scale, he used it against the Roman fleet when they were trying to invade Greece from the shores, it was so effective that the Romans had to call the whole invasion off.

[glycosaminoglycan]

So sad, your 'Death Ray' destroyed itself. Caught the shed on fire. I believe it!

[glycosaminoglycan]

121 dislikes, they are beyond nerds, Dorks!

[12169413]

How well does this work at night? I know many people are gonna call me stupid, but the moon's light is only reflected sunlight so I'm just wondering if this will still work, just slower maybe?

[EricJacqmain]

@12169413 It does work, but moonlight is so weak that the beam is only a bit brighter than daylight. If you put your eye in the focal point, you can see 5000 tiny reflections of the moon.

[PayWithLawv]

@EricJacqmain really? how well does it work bro? boil water? what kinda stuff have have you dont with moonlight?

[goldiger67]

But will it blend?

[pl4123]

@goldiger67 This just wont get old, still give me chuckle.

[Deathzilla7]

Cool.

[plzzzd]

I am not sure the kid realizes that when he is letting that reflection touch his hand when he is aiming he is getting x5000 of the radiation at that time...

[Deathzilla7]

@plzzzd It's only 5000 Suns at the focal point. That's why the stuff didn't burn or melt when it was in the widened beam.

[GottistmeinFels]

You could make a much smaller version. The 5000 mirrors doesn't do anything different than 1 mirror. You just need to concentrate the smaller one differently. It would be much harder though because the 1 mirror theory would mean more bumps in the glass causing the focal point to be not entirely on one specific square centimeter. But it would hold the same power still.

[IchigoMe]

There must be some better application of this power than just melting a bit of metal or setting a piece of wood on fire.

[Qwady01]

At that power the temperature goes to some 2200 degrees Celsius and some oxides reduce, liberating metal. You may have got some iron in the slag from dirt or rock.

[Dther99]

Deadly AND enviromentally friendly!

[sorova]

Only problem is its focal length. How to make it work at say half a mile distance? I expect you'll need a huge parabolic dish.

[G0ttaBeFresh]

@sorova Change the shape of the dish or have each lens be able to shift positions.

[danagol1985]

What if I look directly at the focus point?

[angelsing0000]

5000 mirros is not equal 5000 suns, is only a big mirror

[jSarek]

@angelsing0000 It does if each of those 5000 mirrors reflect onto a single point the size of only one of the mirrors.

[angelsing0000]

@jSarek then.... the sun is only on a single point? if i move a few steps is a diferent sun?

[jSarek]

@angelsing0000: The video claims the *power* of 5000 suns, not that there *are* 5000 different suns. If you move a few steps, it's the same sun, but a completely different set of the sun's rays. Reflecting 5000 sets of the sun's rays to the same point provides the same amount of power as that point would receive if there were 5000 suns shining on it.

[angelsing0000]

@jSarek if i record my voice 5000 times, and play all those.... i gonna feel the power of 5000 voices? a curve big mirror make same result that 5000 little mirrors

[jSarek]

@angelsing0000: Yes, if you play back 5000 recordings of your voice at once, it will have 5000 times the power. It just won't *feel* like it, because we hear loudness on a logarithmic scale; a 5000-fold increase in power is a change of ~36 decibels, roughly the difference between normal conversation and a loud stereo.

And yes, if the surface area of the big curved mirror is 5000 times that of its focal point, then the focal point will be subjected to the power of 5000 suns.

[angelsing0000]

@jSarek haha, however, as I got bored of this

[appple33]

Hey EricJacqmain, im doing a solar ray for a school project, similar to yours but smaller. just i question, what type of glue did you use to stick the mirrors to the satellite dish? Because when I use the hot glue gun, the mirrors don't stick flat on the dish. any help please

[TheZythe]

Dear Santa...

[josiachicas]

dude you would so win every science fair!! subscribed.

[Awatcherofevents]

Oh mummy I want a pretty death ray for Christmas!

[dhudson369]

dude that is wicked and do you think with a bigger one and with a more focused point it would cut through granite i wonder if this is how they cut the pyramid blocks etc. awesome man

[Mephistopheles471]

Take that mythbusters!

[terrifiedprojects]

@Mephistopheles471 someone on mythbusters is getn paid off

[jonathanspindler]

dude, awesome project you built there!!! be cool if you could attach it to a sun tracking stand and aim it at a solar panel, or a piece of steel tubing with fluid circulating through it, you could heat your house for free!!!

[EricJacqmain]

@jonathanspindler exactly my next project.

[pascual92]

@EricJacqmain you will change the world !!

[szharas]

@EricJacqmain what is the max temp it can reach?

[milka865]

nice



[respow1984]

This is greek ancient weapon... ;)

[Sanimangas]

R5800 was too powerful it destroyed itself to protect others. RIP

[MrGirboto]

D: omg.

[alabataille3]

there's no 5800 suns u moron, u've just collected merely 2 m² of sunlight on earth and focused them on one tiny spot..

[oscaryanez1]

Mud burning ? o_O

[anirex911]

awesome..... increase its range and send it up on into space and you got your own particle cannon...

[zz123by680]

you should stick your hand in front of it

[icarothomas]

Now burn the Roman navy down!

[RigorOriginal]

1 question, could you set fire to the trees in your yard with that if your not as careful as possible ?

[prox546]

@RigorOriginal

I'm not the submitter but the answer is no. A simple way to think about it is this:

Assume this parenthesis is the dish ( , and assume that X is the beam coming from the dish, so you have (X . At the center of the X is the point where all the light coming at the dish(collected over 5848 sq cm) has been concentrated down to 1.14 sq cm, this is where the beam is most powerful. At any other length, the beam is weaker and because the trees are far away there, it is totally safe.

[RigorOriginal]

@prox546 a, like a point of high heat. Gotcha, thanks :)

[spichopat]

i smell after effects

[blaze12256]

for giant ants! :D

[Victorye9999]

Ok, no we are FUCKED

[eloid777]

where did u source the small mirror from?

[phalustein1]

wahoouuuuuu my christmas gift :D

[RaiusFly]

burn your ass

[MrReqrut]

Archimedes puzzled...

[marcjtdc]

really cool, BUT ITS NOT CONCENTRATING TO THE SIZE OF A DIME!

[matbh]

I want one of these!

[Mithridates1983]

Now we only need some mode of interstellar travel to invade alien worlds and destroy their famous landmarks!

[alex000713]

а в фокусе антенны спираль которая создает квантовую гравитацию

[camerontacool]

@alex000713 and your an dumb ass. use english the children are having trouble reading oh crap sorry i dont think you can read this.

[alex000713]

а к антенне надо поставить актюатор

[ArkGalos]

fucking awesome

[SufferTH]

You scare me, friend. :/

[xIAMDAVEx]

I saw a 5 storey one that melts rocks!

[BlowinUpStuf4Fun]

Mother nature kicks ass

[music2012]

I'd get some longer pliers.

[JaiNobesIsARat]

How far is the focal point from the dish? The further, the more awesome, because it means you can annihilate stuff from a distance.

[IceBox3]

@JaiNobesIsARat Yeah, but also harder to use, because you have to aim better, the focal point is harder to find, and ALSO over the distance, the ray gets weaker ;)

So at the moment, the focal point should be pretty much there, where the "arm" of an regular satalite-dish is (dunno the english word, since i´m german, but i guess you know what i mean^^)

[JaiNobesIsARat]

@IceBox3 Oh, yeah. I didn't think of that. I do lasers, so i know a little about this but not much.

What's R23K going to consist of?

[exbrosive]

I think you are right behind the nuclear reactor kid

[aragon2235]

but will it blend? :)

[sdfefde]

@aragon2235 hahah

[madsli]

Wow, did that rock turn into glass?

[Andy3381000]

It is based on ancient Greek technology....

[Gadapaj]

SUGOI!

[zahell]

cool story bro !

[bretto2653]

a great use of the old foxtel dish that you don't use anymore. I want him cook a chook with it

[Asylumescapee69]

Eric!

You have got to get yourself a pair of welding gloves... Do not put your bare skin in front of that concentrated light. It doesn't matter that you're not in the focal burn zone, that bright light is UV intense and will harm your skin severely. Also, eyes but I saw you had goggles on. Make sure they're equivocal to welding filtration. Next see if you can use another mirror to redirect the beam and still maintain sharp (small) focus without melting the mirror!

[NJCYCLOPS]

that why we geekdom are so loved we rock dam it

leo

[blazerrips91]

"Unfortunately, the R5800 was completely destroyed in a storage shed fire on December 14, 2010" Question did it ignite the shed and destroyed it's self?

[globogs]

very cool device man, gj

[thrashSJ]

so it was destroyed in a shed fire...i wonder what caused the fire?;)

[AwesomestKeith]

would you walk by one?

[9455715947]

Power of 5000 suns or 5000º C Anuj Yadav

[Mattehfication]

i agree this is real, but it definitely say that it doesnt have the power of 5000 suns.

if all that power collected up into one spot, i think it would burn through that wood and just burn a whole right through the earth!

just an over-sized magnifying glass

[Niz450]

MY TURN MY TURN!!! *Points at neighbours house* ITS ON FIRE!!! XD

[MuradKhanjadoon]

is it available in the market?? and price??

[jabberjaws010]

too cool



[shadesilverwing0]

Careful, even looking at the reflected light can cause eye damage.

[BallzToYouuu]

put it on the street and watch people walk past it and burn :D

[shootingzen28]

This thing wouldn't even make a mark on Chuck Norris's balls!

[freereport1]

Now use that Solar "Death Ray" to distill dirty water from an home made water still!

[ashyboi88]

i'm not sure if it can really be called a death ray until it has actually killed a living thing

also that does not look like 5800 mirrors, it looks more like half that

[Oareoar]

"Unfortunately, the R5800 was completely destroyed in a storage shed fire on December 14, 2010."

[darkmankill1]

@Oareoar It commited suicide after realising it was a death ray.

[ASGabus]

no se en que pais incineran a sus muertos de esta forma.

[diquispe]

es falso, ya que los espejos no estan correctamente alineados

[mographzach]

a few square feet of sunlight can melt rock... can we PLEASE start using this FREE source of energy to power our homes and cars? congress are you listening? GET IT DONE

[mightyfletch]

@mographzach sadly, there is no money to be made by each person running their own energy source, so the government will only jump on it if it can be a source of revenue... one of the sad things of the world we live in. I think I'll set one up for own energy needs...

[teeno7]

can or is this method being used to generate solar based power ?

[mographzach]

@teeno7 yes, it is... they're called concentrated solar power systems... we need more of them

[abunai59]

I wonder if parabolic mirrors can be used to enhance solar power....

[mrwalmart12345]

How about you get infront of it!!!

[venooomq]

i was like, please, put a car in front of it!

[NotreSysteme]

Sorry it was perhaps made by Eric Jacqmain but not created : the true creator has been Archimedes of Syracuse ...

A little modesty does not harm !!!

[mikenike071107110711]

where did you get all the mirrors to cut

[WildCrewNation]

tter quetn is in what is he going to use it on?

[meatballllll]

How the hell did he make that?