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The Solar Death Ray
Ant writes the "Solar Death Ray is made of 112 mirrors mounted on a platform 4 feet wide and 6 feet tall. Each mirror is a square roughly 3.5 inches on edge. All these mirrors focus the sun to a single spot 5 feet, 6 inches from the mirror platform. A wooden fork extends from the mirror base to the area near the focus and serves as a mounting point for Solar Death Ray targets. The mirror platform is mounted to the support frame on a pivot that allows the platform to be angled. The whole system is mounted on a set of wheels. The goal of the Web site was to show the results of the targeted items when the solar death ray was used."
...is batman and robin and a you're a super villian!
Wasen't this on Mythbusters already? And proven to be possible but not practical (I don't remember the final conclusion).
crazy dynamite monkey
These guys seem to have had much better luck than Mythbusters. And I thought that I could trust a couple of Hollywood prop guys to do science. That's a shame, I'll never be able to look at the show the same way again.
... fit on the friggin shark's head.
If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving.
March 17, 2005: I haven't added anything new to the target gallery in a while, partially because I've been obsessed with a new game called "Girlfriend Quest."
Mu, uhh, death ray is bigger than your death ray
The parabolic reflector gaves at the focal point a maximum flux of 1000 W/cm2. The experimentations takes place at the focal zone (18 m in front of the paraboloid. The range of available temperature is from 800 to 2500 C (the maximum reachable temperature is 3800 C) for a maximum thermal power of 1000 kW.
Picture of the Odeillo Solar Furnace
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