Legend has it that in the 3rd century B.C., Greek polymath Archimedes invented what has been called the “death ray” or, alternatively, the “heat ray”. The purpose of this Flash Gordonesque-sounding device was to burn and destroy enemy ships from afar using focused rays of sunlight. For Archimedes, “father of mathematical physics”, the reasoning would have been relatively simple: sunlight, reflected from the concavity of a parabolic mirror of relatively sizeable surface area, converges upon a comparatively small, suitably remote, area of quite combustible material, generating intense heat and, ultimately, fire. Whether this “weaponization” of the sun truly occurred is still, in the year 2225 A.A., the subject of debate and experimentation.
The sun set on Archimedes in the year 212 B.C. His legendary ray, however, has since evolved. In 1984, the year of "Big Brother", Archimedes’ “heat ray” was updated by your Anonymous CFO. Below is a depiction of “SOLAR”–Sunlight Optimization through L-Angled Reflection–in Archimedean setting.
