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To: pjd
Thus, if the total energy is 1 MegaJoule, the power is about 125 MegaWatt - unless I made a stupid mistake, here.

While it may be a mistake, I wouldn't call it a stupid one. The railgun's power is 10 megajoules rather than 1 megajoule. So the peak power would be 1.25 gigawatts. Wow!

150 posted on 01/31/2008 4:39:22 PM PST by Bob
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To: Bob
So the peak power would be 1.25 gigawatts

Meaning the full output power of a large civilian nuclear turbine-generator for one second.

156 posted on 01/31/2008 5:47:31 PM PST by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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