High-Energy Lasers
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High-Energy Lasers
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 Research Cost: 1000
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| Engineers develop powerful directed energy devices with potential as weapons and in the ignition of nuclear fusion. | ||||||
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| For generations, laser weapons have been a science-fiction staple, but their development for military application has been hampered not purely by their extreme energy requirements, but also thermal blooming. A laser heats the air it passes through, and the subsequent change in air density in turn causes a continued beam to defocus and lose strength. To compound the problem, the beam will bend towards cooler air, which has blighted previous prototypes with poor accuracy. The most obvious response is to further concentrate the beam, but this simply makes the air around it even hotter, and thus perpetuates the issue. At last, however, scientists have been able to perfect lasers, which fire in brief, high-power pulses rather than a sustained "ray." While thermal blooming is not an issue in the airless vacuum of space, light (and therefore strength) dissipation over great distances very much still is. As we develop next-generation energy technologies, far more devastating laser weapons for use both within and beyond our skies will become eminently possible. | ||||||
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| Particle Beams • Infrared Combat Lasers | (70%)Laser Engine • (10%)E-Beam Drive | |||||
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| "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine..." Superior Judith Howell, The Servants From a home video of her teaching Sunday School | ||||||
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| Tech List • Project List • Technology | ||||||
