RE: power - Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale? And we have lots of Fen (Supers or not) saying "But it's canon..!", so that's what the 'Wave will produce.
OK, so my 4 year plot has failed (seriously, Rail Cannons being developed with 1PSL muzzle velocity has been there since day 1), but I suspect potential is better than actual here.
Dropping the max muzzle velocity to Mach 1000, and rate-of-fire to 10 rounds a minute sound good to everybody? That's a KE equivilent to 70 tonnes of TNT per shot.
(MATH TIME:
KE is 1/2 * mass(kg) * velocity(m/s)^2. 0.5 * 5 * 343000^2 = 294122500000 Joules.
Tonnes of TNT = 294122500000 Joules / 4184000000 Joules per tonne of TNT = 70.296965 tonnes of TNT.
Power output needed = 294122500000 Joules / 6 secs (for 10 rpm) = 49020416666.666666666666666666667 Watts = 49 Gigiwatts = Bank of 18 Arc Reactors.
Capacitance needed = Joules/Volts^2. 294122500000 Joules / 100000 Volts^2 = 29.41225 Farads = Bank of 30 * 1 Farad Capacitors.
Hum... This becomes fairly easy actually.)
OK, so my 4 year plot has failed (seriously, Rail Cannons being developed with 1PSL muzzle velocity has been there since day 1), but I suspect potential is better than actual here.
Dropping the max muzzle velocity to Mach 1000, and rate-of-fire to 10 rounds a minute sound good to everybody? That's a KE equivilent to 70 tonnes of TNT per shot.
(MATH TIME:
KE is 1/2 * mass(kg) * velocity(m/s)^2. 0.5 * 5 * 343000^2 = 294122500000 Joules.
Tonnes of TNT = 294122500000 Joules / 4184000000 Joules per tonne of TNT = 70.296965 tonnes of TNT.
Power output needed = 294122500000 Joules / 6 secs (for 10 rpm) = 49020416666.666666666666666666667 Watts = 49 Gigiwatts = Bank of 18 Arc Reactors.
Capacitance needed = Joules/Volts^2. 294122500000 Joules / 100000 Volts^2 = 29.41225 Farads = Bank of 30 * 1 Farad Capacitors.
Hum... This becomes fairly easy actually.)