Tracking the MTHEL Laser

I am also lacking in knowledge in this, but, some of you major inventions have been made by people who don't have a high education.
Even if I am not highly educated, or hold a degree in science, or a engineering degree, I can still think.
Even if any of these ideas don't work, I am still trying to come up with any ideas, because, sometimes, the answer to a problem is just right under your nose, or, the answer comes from the most unlikely source, and from the most simplest things you can imagine.

"So ? what you are saying is ? that the ability of making a reactor smaller is limited by the radiation shielding ?"

Yes. The Russians cut back the shielding on their submarine reactors to the barest minimum. The result was that when the reactor burped out more radiation than normal because a crewman screwed up, everyone on the boat got a lethal dose...

"If one laser can produce 25 kilowatts, and you need 100 kilowatts, why not use 4 laser elements synched together. Seems to me the lasers don't even have to be located in the same physical space, they just need to shoot at and hit accurately the same point in space/time."

Nice idea. If you can guarentee all dots would be superimposed within a given dot size, perhaps. I really cannot speak with authority on this, since I have no background in light optics and laser system physics. But you might be on to something. Perhaps if you can gain patent rights quickly you could become a multimillionare. Don't worry I shall not pursue the idea, BTDT. Out lots of bucks.

To add to my comment:
Even if I am not highly educated or if none of us don't hold a advanced degree in science or engineering, we can still come up with ideas, and still think with our brains,, couldn't we ?
Because ? a engineer could be listening to our ideas and then ?
EUREKA !!! they will say ? " now why didn't I think of that before ? " .....
Sometimes, the answers to a problem come from the most unlikely sources.
It called, being innovative.

"Would a element made of diamonds work ?"
I don't think a diamond structure is suitable for such use.
I do know that years back, and perhaps still do, special purity doped rubies where used in "ruby lasers". I have not followed the physics of anything beyond those types. As said previously there are a lot of type of gas lasers, that use various types rarified gases, e.g. argon, that are known to possess specific chemical structure to allow them to produce amplified energy, that eventually builds to a given quanta level and emits a particular frequency of light. Similiarly in recent years there have been a number of solid state lasers designed. Hey when you burn a CD, you are using a little solid state laser system. Really yup. Solid state devices are not easy to manufacture that can produce the required high energy pulses of light. Apparently for what ever reasons, our technologies are not at that level as of yet. That is the issue. For all I know someone may have developed the methodology to implant a diamond latice with the required dupants, that give the structure the ability to lase. I do know as of about 12 years back scientist where starting to work on diamond based transsitor structures. Again, I have not read anything on any modern developments on laser technologies. So you are asking me things I have no answer to.

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