Instead of petawatts I’d love to hear what it can destroy.
I imagine a scale like:
1: Mosquito
…
10000: Planet (Death Star)
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I imagine a scale like:
1: Mosquito
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10000: Planet (Death Star)
So the log10 scale goes from 1–30, where mosquitos die at 1 and the Earth dies at 30. The 2 PW in the article is about a 15.3. The Vulcan 20-20 project (set to complete in 2029) will register at about 20PW, or a 16.3 on the mosquito-Death Star scale [2].
So on a log scale, we're over halfway to building the Death Star.
[0]: https://spectrum.ieee.org/backyard-star-wars
[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-energy-w...
[2]: https://news.sky.com/story/worlds-most-powerful-laser-to-be-...