Solar "Death Ray": Power of 5000 suns!

The R5800 solar concentrator is made from an ordinary fiberglass satellite dish. It is covered in about 5800 3/8" (~1cm) mirror tiles. When properly aligned, it can generate a spot the size of a dime with an intensity of 5000 times normal daylight. This intensity of light is more than enough to melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into lava, and obliterate any organic material in an instant. It stands at 5'9" and is 42" across.
Unfortunately, the R5800 was completely destroyed in a storage shed fire on December 14, 2010, about 8 months after filming this video. It has been replaced by the R23k, which has 23,000 mirrors and a concentration power of 10,000 times daylight.
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Calculations:
Area of dish aperture (elliptical)= (pi x 102cm x 73cm)/4 = 5848 sq cm
Area of focal point (circular)= pi(0.6cm)^2 = 1.14 sq cm
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R5800 (Shown in video)

Dish Type= 0.7m x 1m offset focus elliptical.
Concentration Power= 5000x
Output Power Estimate = 560 watts

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R23k (New version replacing R5800) Stats:

Dish Type= 1.2m x 1.3m offset focus elliptical.
Concentration Power= 10,000x
Output Power Estimate= 1130 watts.
Mirrors= 23000 of 1cm width triangular mirror tiles

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[Darkinkosi]

It's time to wake up. We are burning off valuable material and polluting the world when we can just take free energy falling down from the sky, the sun.

The solution is all in "The Present" at Truthcontest(.)com (Skip to page 53 for free and clean energy)

[robart smith]

Very simple thing to do...

use parabolic mirror to make heat

and make the string engine rotate

just like it is explained in this website

Solar-Stirling.info

[Thegamesplayer1000]

It's probably because it is so bright that the camera only focus' on it

[whooterNG]

How do you get it to work at night time at 2:20?

[ScythePuppet]

TOFOP :3

[arkivx0]

They are not in the most intense area of the beam.

[MrSniper332]

yes indeed its very simple but now you only need the time to make this one and attach all the mirrors in place.

i have big respect for this guy, too bad this one got down

[Jay Wisk]

how come the plies didn't turn red?

[nousernamestaken]

no wonder the shed caught on fire

[Matt Quinn]

This is okay, but could be improved upon. I will make it much more mobile so that you don't need it to be put on wheels. Then we could have the power of the sun, in the palm of our hands. Still a good prototype.

[Rodri Fernandes]

man that was ammazing