Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoIf someone today made an Iron Man suit with all weapons and everything how much would something like that cost today? Also if not be able to be made what are some limits holding us back?message-squaremessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down16
arrow-up120arrow-down1message-squareIf someone today made an Iron Man suit with all weapons and everything how much would something like that cost today? Also if not be able to be made what are some limits holding us back?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square16linkfedilink
minus-squareAnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoPeople mention the power source and they are right, but even if you had that sort of power source, iron man would melt himself. 99% thermal efficiency is basically impossible and even just 1% of the 3GW of power output would cook you near instantaneously.
People mention the power source and they are right, but even if you had that sort of power source, iron man would melt himself.
99% thermal efficiency is basically impossible and even just 1% of the 3GW of power output would cook you near instantaneously.