{"id":1154,"date":"2009-01-30T22:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T04:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2009-01-31T00:29:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:29:34","slug":"team-lasermotives-new-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"Team LaserMotive’s new laser…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest post<\/a> on the LaserMotive blog\u00a0gives an impressive indication of how powerful the laser they will be using this year is.\u00a0 From the blog:<\/p>\n

<\/a>“These images just reinforce that the level of power we\u2019re using for power beaming is beyond \u201cjust\u201d eye danger and well into the realm of immediate skin danger – at the peak in the center of the beam, the power density was probably greater than 300 normal solar intensity. Our lasers from 2006 were powerful but the brightness was not as high as the new laser. Dilas has done an impressive job in increasing the brightness of the laser, and as a result the beam is much better collimated, so it stays very intense over a much longer distance. That is part of what enables us to beam adequate power over a kilometer away.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the post<\/a> on the LaserMotive blog.\u00a0 It just reinforces the fact that this year’s competition at the Space Elevator Games\u00a0is going to be truly exciting.\u00a0 And, just as an aside, why do hardware engineers always like to break things?\u00a0 In the software world, we liked to make things work… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

(Picture from the LaserMotive blog.\u00a0 Click on it for a slightly larger version or visit the LaserMotive blog post)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest post on the LaserMotive blog\u00a0gives an impressive indication of how powerful the laser they will be using this year is.\u00a0 From the blog: “These images just reinforce that the level of power we\u2019re using for power beaming is beyond \u201cjust\u201d eye danger and well into the realm of immediate skin danger – at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}