Sounds like power output is more like 100Mw. > Each three-second launch can consume as much as 100 million watts of electricity, about as much as a small town

Sounds like power output is more like 100Mw. > Each three-second launch can consume as much as 100 million watts of electricity, about as much as a small town uses in the same amount of time. “A utility does that using an acre of equipment,” says lab engineer Mike Doyle, but due to shipboard space limitations, “we have to take that and fit it into a shoebox.” In shipboard generators developed for electromagnetic catapults, electrical power is stored kinetically in rotors spinning at 6,400 rpm. When a launch order is given, power is pulled from the generators in a two- to three-second pulse https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-things-work-electromagnetic-catapults-14474260/ https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-things-wor...