From: Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson
> a Fresnel lens can easily be used to start a fire with one sun (in contrast > to 10,000 suns). If the number is accurate, there may be military > applications. See Blacklight’s June 25, 2014 Second Public Demonstration - > http://vimeo.com/99500674 >From the "Demonstration Day link: …and question and answer sessions with >participation by two validators including a defense company licensee. [Bold >Italics, mine]. Could there be defense applications? In a nutshell, yes. He >was pretty mum about it. The terse response disturbed me. Terse, eh? Military applications, eh? Yes, it is all coming into focus, so to speak, and this could be BLP’s salvation, instead of civilian uses. Hope the questioner was not escorted out of the demo. For a long time, I was convinced that the BLP microwave thruster had made its way into an “unannounced” military program. There was not a huge energy gain in that device, as has been mentioned here - but the potential for improvement seemed to be there and for a particular use. At least that thruster would have put the strategic planners in the Beltway on notice of the capabilities of a new technology (which few can doubt does produces copious amounts of bright photons). Moreover, going back 30 years to Ronnie’s reign, the Pentagon has been obsessed with beam weapons … and for good reason. The strategic planners have realized for a long time that shrinking-chip technology can be employed to direct any weapon far more accurately than the capability of a solid projectile to be steered, so a pulsed beam weapon should be orders of magnitude more deadly, if they could just get enough power into the beam, especially if a sub-second pulse. Wiki has a pretty good entry on the x-ray laser but perhaps a focused, mixed-spectrum beam is as good or better. It’s a short drive from Bethesda, or anywhere in the beltway, to Cranbury. A drone carrying a beam weapon, even if “only” consisting of a lens-focused beam of bright light, possibly made semi-coherent (superradiant) by the arcing process, could be a game changer for weaponry - in such places as the Pak/Afghan border region, and anywhere else for that matter. The collateral damage done by conventional missiles fired by drones has curtailed their use to a very minimum. If the Military could just take-out the terrorist only, and not his 4 wives and 16 children, we could be outta that part of the world in a few months. At least that is the underlying logic, to a strategic planner. Instead of a few missions per month it would be a few per hour. Indeed, this suggestion could be showing my lack of credentials as a wannabe strategic planner, but it would seem that a focused beam would change everything. 10,000 suns for 200 msec sounds about right. Any longer and the lens is destroyed. Any shorter and it is severe sunburn, instead of bar-b-qued frontal cortex. We have seen that individual terrorists can be identified from 5 miles up by an invisible eye-in-the-sky, but not singled out by its weapons... not yet. Many Pakistani officials want to get rid of “only the terrorist” if collateral damage to innocents is eliminated. Al-Qaida is a threat to them, more so than to us. If this speculation is off-base, then as fiction - it is time for a sequel to a movie or two… yet truth is often stranger than fiction. I hate to say it though – the salvation of Mills technology could be RR’s Ray-gun, finally making its way into prime-time.
