Railgun is UP

I should be able to nuke the entire map and win the game in 1 shot

This topic has been discussed before.

"Just the thing being fired would pretty much kill anything around it. 80 GJ is a hell of a lot of force. 1 ton (2,000 pounds / 907.185 kilos) of TNT gives off 4.184 GJ of energy. Even the puny side blasters give off over four and a half tons of TNT, with a rate of fire of 857.1 rounds a minute. "

20,000 years in the future they probably have watch batteries with 80gj of juice.

Just look at how far cell phone batteries have progressed. They have gone from large and weak to very strong and very small.

20,000 years is a long time to improve batteries and power generation.

The main thing isn't so much the amount of energy consumed but what the end result would be.

Let's say that the 80gj is the amount of force that the round has. Whatever it hit would have been hit with the same amount of energy released in 19 tons of TnT. It wouldn't so much be a projectile 'bullet' at that time but rather a 'force missile.' Would basically cause an explosion everywhere it hit.

MythBuster detonates a 1,000 pound bomb.. It wouldn't work quite like that as would more likely pierce and not release all of its power but the energy level is terrifying.

Also I have to say I'd share your fears about a 20 GJ watch battery. Your average watchbattery weighs what, a couple of grams give or take? Any substance containing 20 GJ of chemical energy in only a couple of grams would most likely be quite volatile and not something I'd like to wear around my wrist.

Hehehe, you trustq your throwing arm that well? Once it hits it might well enough take you with it in the blast.

In dust everyone knows that Caldari sucks .

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Caladri / Minmatar running neck and neck and you know that a Mimi is faster .

Then consider the handheld forge gun fires around just as powerful while only being fed from the suits power source.

Does the 80GJ refer to the energy output of the railgun or does it refer to the kinetic energy delivered by the shell when it impacts a target? Momentum is equal to mass multiplied by velocity and by firing a shell with a large mass at an extremely high velocity it would deliver a massive amount of energy on impact.

It is also conceivable that electronics and superconductor technology would have advanced to a stage where a relatively small power source could deliver a massive amount of energy. I have an electrical installation tester that is powered by 6 1.5V AA batteries, while performing an insulation resistance test the tester outputs 1000VDC. If that is possible with some basic enough electronics then it is conceivable that electronics in the future would be advanced enough to convert small power sources into massive sources of energy for the likes of railguns.

Take an electricity distribution system as an example. High-tension transmission lines have relatively low energy loss which is why they are favoured for transmitting electricity over long distances. If you stand under a 400kV transmission line and stick a standard 5ft fluorescent tube into the ground it will light up in the dark. This is because of the massive magnetic field produced by the 400kV lines. A massive magnetic field is produced with almost no energy loss from the transmission lines.

Now imagine what would happen if you took all of the energy in that transmission line and focused it in superconductors and large coils in the barrel of a railgun. It is possible to create massive magnetic fields without even meaning to so I think if someone put a some futuristic technology into it they would indeed be able to deliver 80GJ of energy.