Prague to host of the most powerful laser in the world

By Zach honey posted 28th Apr 2011 at 9:29 PM
We are Prague roast duck, potato dumplings and delicious always the Eastern capital of culture, cheap Pilsner. But the former Soviet bloc come 2015, city is also home to extreme light infrastructure project's most powerful laser in the world, as part of the European Union. According to the plans was published by the European Commission is the laser peak power in the area of Exawatt (equivalent to a billion megawatts) produce. So, for a very small fraction of a second, the bar one million times more power than the entire U.S. electricity generated. Whether you believe it or not, is, that take much time to the experiments that nuclear waste could reveal new cancer treatments and ways to handle. Breakthroughs in either category is incredibly for the project 700 million euro (about $1 billion), including future plans for the construction of two similar lasers, and a third is twice as powerful the Prague installation-about the same current draw as a HTC Thunderbolt.

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