*raises hand*
"So you're telling me that this thing can produce 10,000X more power than you can possibly put into it?"
(math and physics are hard, I guess)
Must have one hell of a capacitor.
You don’t put power into something. You put energy into it.
if you take a week putting energy into it at a constant rate, and use up half that power in one second, then the output power for that second is millions (I’m not doing the math) of times the power rate going in.
I was wondering the same thing. I guess China is such a lawless regime that it’s scientists are no longer bound by the law of conservation of energy.
(I somewhat bungled my response to this question in the earlier thread, so I’ll try again...)
The key is differentiating between power and energy.
The power of laser may be 100 petawatts, but it can produce that power for only a tiny amount of time, say 1 femtosecond.
100PW x 1fs = 100Ws. That’s very possible.