LASERs; life imitating art
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mike wightman
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For what it's worth...
While polonium has be used for a power power source, currend gas lazer technology is maybe 5-10% effecent, if even that high.
I have not checked indepth, but the energy debcities listed for the power supply seem ORDERS of magnitute higher yjay anything even proposed right now, and generating 10kw or more, once, let alone 127 times a second in a device smaller than a semi-trailer seems like fantacy to me.
This is only pripheral to my fields, but this kind of energy dencity in this small a package would make electric cars not only practical, but FAR supior to conventional, even with the nucular contamination issues.
Unless this lab has several major breakthroughs, in several of the hotest techonogies being studied right now, and has managed to keep every one under wraps tight as the manhatten project, such a weople as speced is likly 100 years in the future or so.
Now of course the caviot: Many MAny people have been miserably wrong when tring to project future developments, and a series of smaller breakthroughs still impressive, but within the realm of possabilities might sorten that timeline considerable. However, today or anythime soon with out some MAJOR technical leaps, such a device is far outside the realm of possability.
The energy density is too high, the radioactive thermal generator to achive that sort of power would be too large, and the shilding so that your solder lived long enough to use the weapon would be larger still.
As for the rest of it, the laszing chamber and mechanics seem to be more robust that would fit in such a small package as well, but those are not my areas of expertise, so I can not determine if they just seem really beyond belief, or if they are indeed higher presures and temps than we can currently generate in such a small package.
As a consepet weopon, intended for field trials in 50-100 years, (what dod contractor thinks that long term?) it could very well be the concept for a wepon in that time frame, but ready to ship in the nxt 20 years, highly unlikly.
Again, I am compleatly outside yje loop looking at anything but the power souce, but nothing that I am aware of that has reached the open market, or rumors in the tech publications, suggests any of the technology is any think but theoretical at this time.
JUst the opinions of a tech who does a lot of reading. If someone knows more about any of these systems, and they are more advanced that I believe that they are, cool, but I can't see that from what +I+ know.
Peace
Mr TEK
While polonium has be used for a power power source, currend gas lazer technology is maybe 5-10% effecent, if even that high.
I have not checked indepth, but the energy debcities listed for the power supply seem ORDERS of magnitute higher yjay anything even proposed right now, and generating 10kw or more, once, let alone 127 times a second in a device smaller than a semi-trailer seems like fantacy to me.
This is only pripheral to my fields, but this kind of energy dencity in this small a package would make electric cars not only practical, but FAR supior to conventional, even with the nucular contamination issues.
Unless this lab has several major breakthroughs, in several of the hotest techonogies being studied right now, and has managed to keep every one under wraps tight as the manhatten project, such a weople as speced is likly 100 years in the future or so.
Now of course the caviot: Many MAny people have been miserably wrong when tring to project future developments, and a series of smaller breakthroughs still impressive, but within the realm of possabilities might sorten that timeline considerable. However, today or anythime soon with out some MAJOR technical leaps, such a device is far outside the realm of possability.
The energy density is too high, the radioactive thermal generator to achive that sort of power would be too large, and the shilding so that your solder lived long enough to use the weapon would be larger still.
As for the rest of it, the laszing chamber and mechanics seem to be more robust that would fit in such a small package as well, but those are not my areas of expertise, so I can not determine if they just seem really beyond belief, or if they are indeed higher presures and temps than we can currently generate in such a small package.
As a consepet weopon, intended for field trials in 50-100 years, (what dod contractor thinks that long term?) it could very well be the concept for a wepon in that time frame, but ready to ship in the nxt 20 years, highly unlikly.
Again, I am compleatly outside yje loop looking at anything but the power souce, but nothing that I am aware of that has reached the open market, or rumors in the tech publications, suggests any of the technology is any think but theoretical at this time.
JUst the opinions of a tech who does a lot of reading. If someone knows more about any of these systems, and they are more advanced that I believe that they are, cool, but I can't see that from what +I+ know.
Peace
Mr TEK
It appears to be a joke of some sort; the device almost certainly wouldn't work as described (among other things, the laser range specified is simply wrong), requires replacement every 2-3 months, and in any case, being a 100 kilowatt heat source, would tend to cook anyone carrying it about.Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
Here's another
I don't know if it's an early April Fool or a real proposition.
