If the Navy happens to be watching, I'll gladly take a review unit
Can the radiant alpha thermopile handle it?
producing a supercharged electron beam that can burn through 20 feet of steel per second
ummm, is this a laser or a particle accelerator?
The free-electron laser has the widest frequency range of any laser type, and can be widely tunable,[2] currently ranging in wavelength from microwaves, through terahertz radiation and infrared, to the visible spectrum, to ultraviolet, to X-rays
I could have sworn I saw 'broke the 500kW barrier' somewhere in the article. Not sure where the 14kW comes from. Though I did see something about 'passing 10kW 4 years ago' I believe.
Fox said:Scientists there, in coordination with the Office of Naval Research (ONR), injected a sustained 500 kilovolts (KV) of juice into a prototype accelerator where the existing limit had been 320 kV -- a world’s record, the scientists explained.