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To: Blood of Tyrants

Holy crap 300 secs is a long time to have 100kW of laser focused on you.

However, it likely requires in excess of 10 GIGA-watts or so of electrical power to produce 100kW of laser.


6 posted on 03/14/2008 7:12:29 AM PDT by Palmetto
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To: Palmetto

Actually, it looks like the electrooptical efficiency is in the 20% range, which means the input power should be 500 kW or so. Me want!


14 posted on 03/14/2008 7:39:46 AM PDT by Technocrat (McCain-Romney 2008. Crap.)
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To: Palmetto

Yes, I studied plasma physics in college and know that the efficiency of gaseous lasers is low, about 2% or less. I am not sure what the efficiency of diode lasers is. I’ll bet it is much higher than gaseous lasers, maybe as much as 10-20%. If it required 10 GW of power, that would be the equivalent of 5 large nuclear reactors (5 X 2,000 MegaWatts).


20 posted on 03/14/2008 10:26:54 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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