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I would imagine they hold an incredible amount of power.

I would imagine they hold an incredible amount of power.

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You couldn't get the power out fast enough to fire a powerful beam weapon. It would melt the batteries, or blow them up more likely.

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capacitors would be the power source, their charge/discharge rate is only governed by series resistance.

my favorite capacitor charging scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJINAKOgEY

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Yes. And if you want to run a CO2 laser, the beam is invisible.

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Any CO2 laser that can be powered by a Tesla battery is not going to be very effective. If you want to blind people, sure that will work, but you can do that with a handheld visible diode-based laser too. CO2 lasers aren't effective on metals unless they are over 500 Watts and will require focusing lenses and some gas assist to make the cutting work better. They do well on acrylic and some wood species, but they are far from death rays.

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I would imagine they hold an incredible amount of power.

I would like to know what you think "an incredible amount of power" equates to. A single lightning bolt has far more energy in it than a Tesla battery could ever manage and I wouldn't even consider all the lightning bolts on Earth combined to be an incredible amount of power. A gamma ray burst is what I would call an incredible amount of power, but thankfully we cannot cannot get anywhere near those levels of power in our control.

We just don't have the capabilities yet to manage enough power to make a truly effective directed energy weapon of the likes that people believe exist currently. Huge amounts of energy aren't inconspicuous and our technology level would require massive resources and infrastructure to produce it. Think of the National Ignition Facility where fusion research using huge lasers are going on. It's not something that can easily hide or direct to any target they want. We're still infants when it comes to super science.

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So it would need funding in the amount of trillions of dollars, similar to what the Pentagon had go missing and was supposed to address on 9/11 2001?

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Physics doesn't care about money. Trillions of dollars doesn't give you the capabilities to generate and control incredible amounts of energy. For this reason I say that any directed energy weapons we do have are weak and mostly ineffective. They are likely just exaggerated stories intended to invoke fear in those who don't understand physics and like to be scared. Why actually try to build scary death rays when all you need to do is give people the impression that you already have scary death rays? Fear is all that matters since that is what they use to control people.

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See also 'nukes'

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muh (((EV))) thread

No. Not even close. Those batteries aren't capable of sustaining any significant draw required to make an energy weapon. It seems to me poal users have NO IDEA how circuitry or batteries work. Even a little bit. Even if there were enough energy in the battery they could never come close to the power draw necessary. You can see this issue when people put inappropriate items on their UPS such as a fridge. The moment the fridge powers on to cool rather than sustain the UPS will fry.

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With enough modification anything is possible. Large capacitors might be useful.

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Better off using some sort of capacitor I would imagine

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You have to custom make the capacitor specific to your needs. I was surprised at how cheap and easy that was. And big. I would imagine.

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I wonder how many dindus you could taze with one.

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If it were a Tesla tazer, then when the prongs impale the target, it would complete a circuit and pull electricity from the criminal, and partially recharge the tazer, similar to how their vehicles use braking to partially charge the car battery.