WTC Dust
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Not exactly. What is a rail gun? Delivering energy to target via a mass moving at high velocity is an efficient way of doing it and many advanced weapons programs are still doing just that.
True, but new kinds of weapons that do not use projectiles have been developed in the past decades.
Yes, and that makes for basic realities. The first being; you don't get more out of it than you put in.
This is where new physics is required. The physics of materials. If the material itself provided the energy used to destroy the WTC, you don't need to worry about getting more juice from anywhere or storing the juice.
Just putting "energy beam" in front of the name doesn't mean you suddenly get more juice out of your power supply. You still have to generate, store, put that energy into the beam, and get it to the target. Which in atmosphere is not always trivial!
As a general rule, converting to electric energy from any other energy source is a lossy proposition. So if you had, say, a chemical-pumped laser weapon, then what comes out the business end will be only a percent of what you'd be able to deliver if you put those same chemicals into a grenade and threw it.
Only you're ignoring the energy contained within the material itself.
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