Eric Jacqmain from Indiana has just created a home-made ‘death ray’. The teenager used 5,800 small mirror tiles and fastened them on an old satellite dish. The crude device harvests the power of the sun and intensifies the natural light into a focal point no larger than a couple of centimeters. This generates heat as high as 5,000 suns, according to Eric.

The video posted on Youtube shows the awesome power of the ‘death ray’. It can burn through wood, rock and even paint can lids. So this is a really powerful contraption. Just imagine what a refined prototype could do?

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While many teenagers are content to sit at home playing computer games, this one has set his sights on something a little more ambitious.

Eric Jacqmain, from Indiana in the US, covered an ordinary fibreglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles – and made his very own ‘death ray’.

When aligned correctly it can generate a heat spot a couple of centimetres across, with an intensity of 5,000 shining suns, the 19-year-old claims.

The inventor then posted video of his invention on YouTube, with people commenting in awe of the power of the satellite.

The ray generates enough power to melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into lava, and obliterate any organic material in an instant.

It stands at 5ft 9ins and measures just 42 inches across.

Jacqmain, commenting on YouTube said : ‘I drilled a small hole in the dish and glued a piece of PVC pipe on the back.

‘Light shines through the hole and hits the translucent plastic on the end of the pipe. All I had to do was aim the dish once and mark the spot.

‘As long as the target doesn’t conduct heat away too fast it will melt or vaporize just about anything eventually.

‘I have vaporized before carbon, which occurs above 6,500 Fahrenheit.’

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