GURPS O'Neill Cylinder Design

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by martinl

... if you have enough power sats you can redirect them to all aim at the same place, can't you?

If individually you had powersats that could deliver energy in concentrations equal to half of sunlight (though in longer wavelengths) aiming 10 powesats at the same area would enable you to boil water 5x as fast as leaving it out in normal sunshine.

Giant death rays are actually quite hard to build.