How much heat would you generate if you focused the sun 10,000 times.?

Question

At what point can you no longer add more heat (can't get hotter than the heat source which would be the surface of the sun) but what happens the the rest of the energy that you are focusing into that point, dose it just disapate faster and how much increase in heat do you get out of each multipel focus of the beam of sunlight.
I'v tried to look this up and found different answers but can not get the whole thing but together if someone could explaine it in laymans terms I would really appreciate it
Thank you in advance if you can help.
John k

Answer 1

Average solar insolation at the earth's surface is about 1000 watts per square meter (normal to the sunlight). You could do this with an array of 100 by 100 mirrors (each 1 square meter) reflecting to a single square meter (assuming no losses). You would then have 10 megawatts of electromagnetic energy entering that square meter. From there, you'd need a thermal analysis to determine the effect on whatever you placed there.

There's no fundamental reason it couldn't get hotter than the surface of the heat source.

Answer 2

If you attempt to greatly concentrate the sun's energy the matter that you are heating will radiate heat back to the sun. If it were hotter than the sun it would radiate more to the sun than it was receiving.

Also, if you could exceed the sun's temperature then you would be violating the second law of thermodynamics.

Answer 3

Might sound impossible...but you CAN infinitely focus the Sun. But at a unknown point (not known to man...yet), the heat will get so extreme (hotter than the Sun itself) to the extent of making the particles vibrate so fast that they will separate, and separate, to an inseparable point, which we call quarks.

P.S, might sound stupid, but the truth is the truth.