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With a laser operating on about 30 kilowatts of electricity - and possibly three times that in the future - the cost amounts to a few dollars per shot, Thompson
by deletes 13y ago
With a laser operating on about 30 kilowatts of electricity - and possibly three times that in the future - the cost amounts to a few dollars per shot, Thompson said.
The important part. Power is plentiful on a ship. No need to pay for and carry ammunition. The cost for a single rocket or cannon volley is usually in the thousands of dollars.
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- prestadige 13y agoIndeed, and although the US Navy has plenty of power already, I'm interested to know how the polywell prototype fusor that they've been sponsoring is coming along. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
- sp332 13y agoI'm having trouble finding any more documents than are listed in that article, but I did find more grants for development https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?desc=Y&sortBy=SIGNED_DATE&s=FPDSNG.COM&q=energy%2Fmatter+VENDOR_FULL_NAME%3A%22ENERGY%2FMATTER+CONVERSION+CORPORATION%22&indexName=awardfull&templateName=1.4.3 https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?desc=Y&sortBy=SIGNED... so it's probably still going strong. It would be nice if someone could update their website with something more recent than 2006. http://www.emc2fusion.org/ http://www.emc2fusion.org/
- drjesusphd 13y agoI reckon it's going quite well for Polywell... It's classified. No need to take it seriously as real science without real peer review.
- Trufa 13y agoA tomahawk is around $569,000 per unit! http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2200&tid=1300&ct=2 http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=2200&tid=1...