Bloody Hell!!!

Engadget…posted this…

“Rest assured, we’ve seen some wicked frickin’ lasers in our day, but apparently, even the two-kilowatt rendition that heats coffee in mere seconds can’t hold a candle
ray of light to HERCULES. Intentionally named in all caps by University
of Michigan gurus in order to highlight its awesomeness, said laser
contains 300 terawatts of power (or 300 times the capacity of the
entire US electricity grid) and could “help scientists develop better
proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer.” Still, we
can’t help but conclude with UMich’s own description of this
masterpiece: “If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and
focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand,
that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of [HERCULES].” Damn.”

~ by Ankit Bhatia on February 17, 2008.