Just how powerful can you make one of these if you put it on a bigger warship?
>>64764828Yeah.
within reason
>>647648281 megawatt is something we could realistically see on a non-nuclear vessel eventually. Any bigger and you need a reactor on board to power it
>>64764828Not much because you can only choose one>extreme long range lasers exist>Earth is not flat
>>64765031Not with what we have now. Power is absolutely not the primary concern with lasers. It's relatively straightforward to add more generating capacity and capacitors. Dealing with the buildup of waste heat inside higher power systems is the big problem. The more juice you put through it, the more those fractional percentages of inefficiency start to matter as components begin to fail and your safe firing time becomes fractions of fractions of a second once every 15 minutes.
>>64765240>heh, polymer is for babys' toys. give me a good wooden stock any day. >ACK! My railguns and lasers dont have feasible parts lives! I just hope materials science can help me!
>>64765039>you can only choose oneYou didn't do this right.
>>64765240>the ocean is the ideal heat sinkHuh.
>>64765264I warned you about the logistical steps bro, I warned you.
>>64764828Do you realize what Star Wars actually was ?Classic Ruby Laser with xenon photoflash tube wound around it and energized = some percentage of energy in = some energy out as red coherent light through the partially silvered mirror + other end capped by solid mirror. STAR WARS WAS A VERY LARGE RECTANGULAR OXYACETYLENE TORCH FLAME WITH SOLID MIRROR ON ONE SIDE AND PARTIAL MIRROR ON OTHER AND BLUE LASER SHOT OUT THE PARTIAL END.NO FURTHER FUCKING AROUND WITH POWER SUPPLY NEEDED. There were other combos that worked one was N2O and some fuel gas BUT I REMEMBERTHAT ONE.
>>64765039Just build a tower
>>64765769Make a new video already Styropyro.
>>64765240laser beams are generated in a big room separate from the optics and fed to them through fiber optic cables. You can absolutely just build a second room and just merge the beams later. Power is the only thing you can't just add more of to a ship, you're limited by the powerplant
>>64765835NGL that laser gun that he built is actually military grade, you can blind dozens of combatants if you fire it into a window of an enemy held building
>>64765264Materials science has minimal impact on cooling engineering. Basic copper fins with active cooling is as good as it gets. You can get more expensive materials for marginally better cooling but the cost effectiveness is miniscule.>>64765775Truly, Japanese battleships were ahead of their time.
>>64765031yeah but with a huge nuclear reactor how strong can this laser get? >>64765867It's not military grade until the Munitorum starts issuing lasguns to the newly-founded Imperial Guard.
>>64766459>Materials science has minimal impact on cooling engineering. Basic copper fins with active cooling is as good as it gets.lolno. monoisotopic diamond has ENORMOUSLY larger heat conductivity than copper. And for big systems it's worth to use liquid cooling instead of air.
>>64765775Building something as strong as Excalibur is probably not possible but for point defense on a base, wouldn't an installation with bigger everything work swimmingly compared to the portable vehicle variants?
