4 MW microwave!

Adam Funk <[email hidden]> wrote in news:0eu0d3-em2.ln1
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1715470,00.html

Wow, I'd like to play with a microwave that can blast the minerals out
of rocks. (The article says "4m Watts" but I'm sure it means "4 MW".)

That's 4,000 watts. Gonna have to ajust the hell out of your cooking time
and power settings.

Good luck,

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Adam Funk <[email hidden]> wrote in news:0eu0d3-em2.ln1
@news.ducksburg.com:

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1715470,00.html

Wow, I'd like to play with a microwave that can blast the minerals out
of rocks. (The article says "4m Watts" but I'm sure it means "4 MW".)

That's 4,000 watts. Gonna have to ajust the hell out of your cooking time
and power settings.

Good luck,

Andy

Actually, if the 4mW= 4 Mega Watts- that is 4,000,000 Watts.

"Ken" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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"Andy" <q> wrote in message
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Adam Funk <[email hidden]> wrote in news:0eu0d3-em2.ln1
@news.ducksburg.com:

Quoted message said:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1715470,00.html

Wow, I'd like to play with a microwave that can blast the minerals
out of rocks. (The article says "4m Watts" but I'm sure it means "4
MW".)

That's 4,000 watts. Gonna have to ajust the hell out of your cooking
time and power settings.

Good luck,

Andy

Actually, if the 4mW= 4 Mega Watts- that is 4,000,000 Watts.

Ken,

I read it as 4 milli-watts.

4,000,000 watts you couldn't defrost a turkey, it'd come out burnt to a
crips after 1 second.

Andy

Bob Myers wrote on 23 Feb 2006 in rec.food.cooking

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"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Quoted message said:

Actually, if the 4mW= 4 Mega Watts- that is 4,000,000 Watts.

Ken,

I read it as 4 milli-watts.

4,000,000 watts you couldn't defrost a turkey, it'd come out burnt to

a

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crips after 1 second.

It's 4 MILLION watts, for sure. But that power is
delivered as a microsecond pulse.

Bob M.

And here I thought it was a statement about it's wave length not it's
power. You know like AM, FM, SW ,MW, xray, etc...

--
-Alan

"Bob Myers" <[email hidden]> wrote

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delivered as a microsecond pulse.

Kontext-Away smiles as it hums along to the pulsating
one thousand hertz vibrator.

--oTTo--

"Ken" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Adam Funk <[email hidden]> wrote in news:0eu0d3-em2.ln1
@news.ducksburg.com:

Quoted message said:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1715470,00.html

Wow, I'd like to play with a microwave that can blast the minerals out
of rocks. (The article says "4m Watts" but I'm sure it means "4 MW".)

That's 4,000 watts. Gonna have to ajust the hell out of your cooking time
and power settings.

Good luck,

Andy

Actually, if the 4mW= 4 Mega Watts- that is 4,000,000 Watts.

You could dry your cat REAL fast.

--
Peter Aitken

Bob Myers said:

It's 4 MILLION watts, for sure. But that power is
delivered as a microsecond pulse.

Even for a whole second, you'd only get charged for 1.1 kWh of
'lectric.

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Otto Bahn said:

"Bob Myers" <[email hidden]> wrote

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delivered as a microsecond pulse.

Kontext-Away smiles as it hums along to the pulsating
one thousand hertz vibrator.

1 million Hz.

"Bob Myers" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:ARoLf.3578
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"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Actually, if the 4mW= 4 Mega Watts- that is 4,000,000 Watts.

Ken,

I read it as 4 milli-watts.

4,000,000 watts you couldn't defrost a turkey, it'd come out burnt to

a

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crips after 1 second.

It's 4 MILLION watts, for sure. But that power is
delivered as a microsecond pulse.

Bob M.

Yeah, sure. You don't plug a 4,000,000 watt microwave oven into an
ordinary household outlet. Impossible.

GIMMEABREAK!

Andy

"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Quoted message said:

Actually, if the 4mW= 4 Mega Watts- that is 4,000,000 Watts.

Ken,

I read it as 4 milli-watts.

4,000,000 watts you couldn't defrost a turkey, it'd come out burnt to a
crips after 1 second.

It's 4 MILLION watts, for sure. But that power is
delivered as a microsecond pulse.

Bob M.

Mr Libido Incognito said:

And here I thought it was a statement about it's wave length not it's
power. You know like AM, FM, SW ,MW, xray, etc...

if i'm not mistaken, i think nukers are relegated to the garbage unlicensed
frequency range around 2.4 ghz

Bob Myers said:

1 kWh of electrical energy is, just to give one common
example, is roughly what's contained in a moderate-sized
car battery.

Woo-hoo! Portal blast-o-matic!

"Mr Libido Incognito" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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It's 4 MILLION watts, for sure. But that power is
delivered as a microsecond pulse.

Bob M.

And here I thought it was a statement about it's wave length not it's
power. You know like AM, FM, SW ,MW, xray, etc...

Nope; a microsecond period for the wave, if that's what was
intended, would be only 1 MHz, not even into the shortwave
frequencies and most definitely not a "microwave" signal.

Bob M.

"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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Yeah, sure. You don't plug a 4,000,000 watt microwave oven into an
ordinary household outlet. Impossible.

Well, first of all, who was talking about plugging the thing
into a household outlet? The original article had to do with
a very specialized piece of equipment made by e2v, a UK
company which produces a pretty wide range of small-volume
RF gear.

But also - it's not at all impossible that such a device could be
powered by an "ordinary household outlet" (although I
would certainly doubt that this one IS). You're confusing
power with energy (which is the product of power and the
time over which that power is delivered). As another
response pointed out, running this thing for even a full
second represents only about 1 kWh (kilowatt-hour) of
electric energy; a standard 15A outlet would provide that
much energy in about 35 minutes. And that's exactly
how you use such "standard outlets" to create high power
pulses. You bring the energy in to the system at whatever
rate you can and store it (say, in a large bank of capacitors),
and then discharge the whole thing in a short pulse.

1 kWh of electrical energy is, just to give one common
example, is roughly what's contained in a moderate-sized
car battery.

Bob M.

"Adam Funk" <[email hidden]> wrote

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1 kWh of electrical energy is, just to give one common
example, is roughly what's contained in a moderate-sized
car battery.

It's also about equal to a small stove burner on high
for an hour, seeing as the portable stove burner I
once owned was 1000W.

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Woo-hoo! Portal blast-o-matic!

Then again, I could be wong by 3 orders of magnitude,
which is kinda ironic because that's where engineers
are taught that you can ignore the smaller variable
or effect (and not get a BIG FAT RED "X" on your test
(not unlike the one in The Scarlet Letter)).

--oTTo--

Andy q said:

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Actually, if the 4mW= 4 Mega Watts- that is 4,000,000 Watts.

Ken,

I read it as 4 milli-watts.

Which would be .004 watt.

--
-denny-
"Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"

"It's come as you are, baby."

-over the hedge

"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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I read it as 4 milli-watts.

Which would be .004 watt.

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I stand corrected. 4,000,000 milliwatts = 4,000 watts.

But it warn't neither....

A small "m" by itself is often used as an abbreviation for
"million," esp. in the UK (where this article originated).
Remember, it was "4m Watts," not "4 mWatts".
This thing puts out 4 x 10^6 Watt, 1 microsecond long
bursts of microwave radiation.

Bob M.

Bob Myers said:

"Andy" <q> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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>I read it as 4 milli-watts.

Which would be .004 watt.

Quoted message said:

I stand corrected. 4,000,000 milliwatts = 4,000 watts.

But it warn't neither....

A small "m" by itself is often used as an abbreviation for
"million," esp. in the UK (where this article originated).
Remember, it was "4m Watts," not "4 mWatts".
This thing puts out 4 x 10^6 Watt, 1 microsecond long
bursts of microwave radiation.

Does it cook or doesn't it? That is the REAL question.
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.