Teenager Builds "Death-Ray"

Eric Jacqmain, a teenager of Indiana, US, accomplished a huge feat. He created an actual 'Death-Ray'. How? He covered an ordinary fiberglass satellite dish with 5,800 tiny mirror tiles, of course. When aligned correctly it can create a heat spot a couple or centimeters across, packing an intensity of 5,000 shining suns, the nineteen year old claims.
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 five feet nine inches, and measures just forty two inches across. 'Light shines through a 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,' Jacqmain explained.
'Unfortunately for Jacqmain, his 'Death Ray' dish met it's own grisly end when it was destroyed in a shed fire,' commented the author of the original article. I believe this occurrence is for the best. After all, someone could have easily swiped the dish from Jacqmain, and just imagine that invention of death landing in malevolent hands. Not a pleasant outcome, I'm sure.
Except now Jacqmain plans to create a yet more powerful alternative, using approximately 32,000 mirrors this time. Ingenious evil scientist, much?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1351935/Eric-Jacqmain-invented-Death-ray-dish-intensity-5-000-suns.html