Oh, now I need to know. If the entirety of the radiation the sun puts out was concentrated in one beam - a laser - and it hit the earth, how much energy would that be?
Even concentrating a few square feet of the duns energy can start fires, so how much more would it be?
Hmmm…this can be saved by math I think using the fact that at twice the distance the energy is reduced 4 times…
How far is it to the fun…ummm…I need to get some figures.
It seems, though, that concentrating a single stars energy would destroy just snout anything.