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...Japan fires world's most powerful laser to produce... 1,000 times the planet's power consumption
dailymail.co.uk ^ | By Ellie Zolfagharifard

Posted on 07/29/2015 5:26:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Japan claims to have fired the most powerful laser ever created.

Researchers in Osaka were able to produce a 2-petawatt laser beam using a device known as the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiment (LFEX).

The power of the 'Death Star'-like beam is equivalent to 1,000 times the world's total electricity consumption, the scientists claim. While it produced a huge amount of power, the energy required for the beam itself is equivalent to that needed to power a microwave for two seconds.

The team were able to produce such a high output from low energy by only firing the laser beam for 1 pico-second, or a trillionth of a second.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: japan; laser; lfex; ordersofmagnitude
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To: ctdonath2

OK, so the have really, really great eyesight also. :)


41 posted on 07/29/2015 7:47:32 PM PDT by rikkir (You can lead a horde to knowledge but you canÂ’t make them think. (TnkU ctdonath2))
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To: BenLurkin

I once saw a UFO shoot a laser beam into Elvis’ grave.

W.W.


42 posted on 07/29/2015 7:51:27 PM PDT by logitech (It is time.)
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To: Lx

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in Japanese."

43 posted on 07/29/2015 7:58:21 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
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To: BenLurkin

“The team were able to produce such a high output from low energy by only firing the laser beam for 1 pico-second, or a trillionth of a second.”

I wonder if that would kill a mosquito? Possibly, since the total energy input is less than what it would take to power a microwave oven for two seconds, and so the output energy would be some percent less than that. The question is how dispersed was that energy during that trillionth of a second, that is, how wide was the beam diameter?


44 posted on 07/29/2015 8:00:49 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Yottawatt?

45 posted on 07/29/2015 8:01:49 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Huntress

46 posted on 07/29/2015 8:06:16 PM PDT by xp38
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To: BenLurkin

My guess is that they have a large bank of ultra-capacitors which you can now get at 300 farads each, about the size of a soda can. So lots of stored charge. When ready to use it, ZAP! But it probably takes a while to build up the charge so the duty cycle of this laser would be very poor.


47 posted on 07/29/2015 10:08:09 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
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To: JohnnyP

Hah! Don’t know if that was me or spellcheck.


48 posted on 07/30/2015 7:35:03 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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