Timeline for Effectiveness of a glowing hot tungsten sword against medieval era knights?
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 0:52 | comment | added | aroth | @Joshua Electrocuting an angry person who's walking around in what's basically a personal Faraday cage while trying to whack you with a sword is probably not very easy. I'd rather be the guy with the sword and the Faraday cage than the guy with the battery in that fight. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 19:12 | comment | added | Kevin Kostlan | That's about 50kW for emissivity 1/3 (reasonable for tungsten). Over three hours we have 540 MJ of energy. The capacity of a Tesla's ~500kg battery is 306 MJ. You have miraculous technology and/or superhuman strength! | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:25 | comment | added | towe | @EnricNaval Wear a long, metal coat between the battery pack that touches the ground - then just prod your enemy with a pole that carries the positive voltage. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 12:45 | comment | added | Ralph Bolton | Indeed, if you can engineer and charge the battery, you can probably engineer all sorts of exotic looking effects and weaponry. If you can keep a tungsten stick at 3000C, why not keep a big bowl of lead solder at just 200C and fling that about at your enemies? You could probably engineer a Van-de-Graaf device to shoot lightening at your (metal clad) enemies. A whole load of lightening buzzing and cracking on the back of a cart being pushed towards a medieval soldier would probably be enough to make them turn and run - no swords required. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 12:29 | comment | added | Enric Naval | I think you can simply re-invent the Taser. Touch the armor with the blade, and allow the battery to discharge into the blade. Blade of Doom: kills on touch. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 9:37 | comment | added | Holger | Do power a railgun, perhaps? | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 4:06 | comment | added | Joshua | Or maybe you can arrange to electrocute someone with that battery pack. | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 7:02 | history | answered | Mike Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |