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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5449905" data-attributes="member: 8835">yeah, thats not new, other than "on youtube" its been done before.The tons of mirrors was cool, adding more in a rebuild will probably just yield the same thing but hotter.  Which it looks like the original was hot enough.making each mirror independently auto-track the sun and the target and building an array out of that would give you actual range and duration of burn in a more useful fashion.Which is what the mythbusters were attempting to do with humans holding the mirrrors.telescopes can have motors to make them track a point, so that technology can be used on the array itself to track the sun.What's needed from there is a way to make each mirror shift its angle to reflect the sun optimally to a target, thus always keeping it aligned.  Once you have that, distance isn't a problem given how much energy is in the beam after travelling all the way from the sun and through our atmosphere.I would suspec the big solar arrays in the desert do this, but the challenge is to come up with a comparable but portable mechanism for the wagon array.</blockquote>