Jem Stansfield, of the BBC show "Bang Goes The Theory," visits a solar furnace research facility in southern France to see the enormous potential of sunlight. This 2 square-meter mirror is capable of creating temperatures of 3,500°C, which is too hot for any known material to handle.
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