Comment Re:That's great, but... (Score 1) 464
TFA is just speculating a linear scale down to handheld and shark-mounted lasers as a joke. Pretty funny too.
The goal weapon is 150kW which will put out the
Nothing mentions the diameter or frequency of the beam used, but as another person alluded exposed human parts would explosively vaporize, metal would melt, and clothing would ignite(sufficient to stop combatant) pretty quickly.
36.6C, 40kg body water raised to boiling 63.4 degrees.
40kg * 63.4C * 4.18kJ/(kg * C) / 150 kW = 70.7 seconds to boil a 40kg person.
But that isn't how it works, it's focused on say 20 cc of water.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.02kg+*+63.4C+*+4.18kJ%2F(kg+*+C)+%2F+150+kW
So (according to wolfram alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.035+s) between
That probably over-simplifies how the energy would be converted and propagate through tissue, but who knows the frequency or diameter of the beam?