To: Graewoulf
“500 TW is 1,000 times more power than the United States uses at any instant in time.” So where did all of this energy needed for this reseach come from? Take a guess. The logical conclusion and premise is never (almost always) considered in the original article. This is nonsense.
13 posted on
07/16/2012 9:18:34 PM PDT by
Fungi
To: Fungi
It's a matter of units.
500TW is more power than the US uses at any instant.
They load up capacitors and discharge them quickly. It's not 500TW/h.
Power measurements depend on the discharge time.
That's what the author left out. Also why culinary school is better than journalism school.
/johnny
To: Fungi
It only lasted 1/5,000,000th of a second or some along that time span
17 posted on
07/16/2012 9:30:10 PM PDT by
BreezyDog
(PLAN A: A Peaceful Restoration of the Republic.....PLAN B: A Restoration of the Republic)
To: Fungi
The total laser energy was 1.85 megajoules. That’s a little more than a half kilowatt hour.
19 posted on
07/16/2012 9:49:54 PM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
To: Fungi
” - - - This is nonsense.”
Agreed. However, we live in an age of Junk Science, and razamatazz “discoveries” such as this will feed “cold fusion” rumors for years.
BTW, has anybody figured out the safe lab distance one needs to be if there really was, (thanks to Kenyan GOVERNMENT RESEARCH, of course), Cold Fusion?
29 posted on
07/17/2012 6:10:12 AM PDT by
Graewoulf
((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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