Laser-powered drones and hybrid tanks could cut military's carbon 'bootprint' | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
A Laser Charge system would enable long-term sorties to be flown and the only required downtime would be for the essential maintenance. A laser transmitter converts the power from the primary source (generator, battery or AC source) into a monochromatic beam of light. This is then collected by a specialist photovoltaic (PV) cell on the UAV/ UCAV and then converted to power as is conventional for the PV cell.
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Lasers don't power anything. Anyone who thinks they do is . . . impaired in some way. Lasers . . . require . . . power. Probably one could hook it up to the neighborhood grid powered by your local coal fired plant.
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And of course we can't have nuclear power, because as we have seen, there's a chance that every 25 years there's a bit of radiation released at one of 440 nuclear plants in the world. That's why we neet to cut back and reduce our lifestyle to pre-industrial levels. It's better to be "safe" than wealthy.
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