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To: kattracks
The "e-bomb" contains as much power as what the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours - about 2 billion watts - and it can all be loaded onto long-range cruise missiles.

Technically scrambled. Let me try to untangle it.

The "e-bomb" produces, very briefly and in a focused direction, an electromagnetic field equivalent to that of an "isotropic" (i.e., theoretical omnidirectional) radiator operating at about 2 billion watts - the same power as is continually produced by the generators at Hoover Dam.

Uh, I can see why they simplified it <>=<)B^).

8 posted on 01/20/2003 2:55:17 AM PST by Erasmus
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To: Erasmus
the same power as is continually produced by the generators at Hoover Dam.

This is still scrambled. The sentence seems to be saying that the bomb yields as much ENERGY as Hoover Dam does in 24 hours, and that this figure would be 2 billion watt-seconds (joules). But since I don't know what the power capacity of Hoover Dam is, I can't say if this is actually what is meant.

Remember: Energy is what weapons blow stuff up with -- measured in joules, ergs, watt-seconds, and such things. Power is a measure of how fast something produces the energy.

You could produce 2 billion watt-seconds of energy from a hamster cage, but it would sure take a lot of hamsters!

11 posted on 01/20/2003 5:01:39 AM PST by thulldud
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To: Erasmus
"OMG, My arse is grass" - SADDAM :)
12 posted on 01/20/2003 5:30:03 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (support your favorite website (FR), PLEASE)
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