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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hobgoblin" data-source="post: 2801591" data-attributes="member: 24923">agemegos, im fully aware of the cost of power. thats why i repetedly bring that topic up in the end of my posts.before we start talking about any kind of energy based weapon we have to find new and more effective ways of making/storing said energy. under current technology this impossible.this is the real problem. ones we can pump enough energy into the weapon then we can start looking into the other problems.in star trek they have this warp core that creates enough energy to enable a whole ship to bypass einstein. and im guessing that the power source of their phasors where based on a similar system.iirc, the powersource for the laser powerd transport was described as a megawatt laser. and it was able to propell a item 10 cm by 10 cm craft about 20-40 meters into the air.so yes, its not practical by a longshot but the theory works. the question is how to generate and deliver the needed amounts of energy for it to become a way of delivering artillery shells and similar.as for the plasma thing. sure its a hot gas. but so is a explosive. the thing is to have that hot gas spread over a large enough area before it cools to be effective as a weapon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> or in the case of a explosive, create a shockwave from the generation of said hot gasses.in many ways plasma can be seen as a kind of napalm rather then a conventional artillery grenade. the question is, what is the task you want performed.in the end the discussion of energy based weapons stop at energy production and storage. right now we cant produce and store high enough amounts of energy for a energy based weapon system to be effective. maybe we can do so in the future, maybe not. but one can dream, right?</blockquote>

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