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Re:Centrifugal Machine Guns by throwaway2048 on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:48AM (#21741254)
A model 3 also has a battery pack that weighs hundreds of pounds, and doesn't have the need for large bursts of instantaneous energy a railgun would (hence the $50k capacitor bank), so average energy usage isn't very meaningful.
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Re:Centrifugal Machine Guns by mlyle on Monday December 09, 2019 @03:52AM (#21741271)
That's why I didn't use average energy usage of the Tesla, but peak sustained power.

Yes, you would obviously need a (1-3 shot) capacitor bank, along with 1/8th of the Tesla's battery pack.

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