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Watch the sun create fire and burn through concrete and other materials

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in a previous project I found a free TV and turn it into a giant solar scorcher this shoots out a deadly bee sunlight it's hot enough to abuse food melt metal and burn things you probably shouldn't today seemed like a good day to play with my solar scorcher I position my frame and found the focal point then added some concrete tiles as a base for my projects okay power and I'll test it out with this piece of wood and when the light makes contact I've got Instant Fire the sunlight at this spot is around 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit enough to melt this spot of concrete into a glowing orange like with I'm curious to see what I can do with all this heat so I filled a glass bottle with water I'll punch a hole in the cap it's incredible to see that the instant I focus my lens on the bottle it starts smoking just a few moments later this water is so hot it's boiling and I'm a little nervous the bottom Light Flow yep there goes the glass pieces are melting and that's cool but now I want to Johnson food I'll get some hot dogs and when they hit the beam they really do get hot this might be a little well done for my tastes and I'm still hungry so let's try an egg the egg is actually working very well it's so reflective it doesn't burn as fast and even my wife is interested little salt and pepper and it's tempting to try a bite okay so it wasn't actually expecting to eat this but it looks safe enough and even my kids are anxious to try surprisingly it's pretty good alright let's see what else this will do I'll try bring a penny and wow it melted how about a stack of pennies Yep they're nothing but liquid metal now and I'm thinking that slag in the mixture must be what's left of the copper coating it's only take me about 4 seconds to melt these and melting metal is really great but now I want to see something first I wonder what would happen if the day it's doing some kind of debris and smoking like crazy I hear some little pops and it's even for me some interesting gross look at that but no explosion how about if I put a pop top on this bottle of water and let the pressure-filled yeah that's what I'm looking for let's do that Kendall is back on and pressure is building awesome alright the Sun is setting and ivory adjusted my A-frame I'm just wondering if this would ignite gasoline it does hopefully it goes without saying that this is very dangerous and you shouldn't try this at home well I'm there's an insane amount of power Behind these lenses if you'd like to see where I got this one take a look at my video on how I acted out of an old TV this one boiled water in less than a minute weld a nickel to concrete and instantly towards any piece of wood and it's white well that was fun but I'm so hungry so I'll put everything away and go get some real home cooking that's it for now if you like this project perhaps you like some of my others check them out at the King of Random. Com

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