Flame Guns revisited...

[ffutures]

Getting back to flame pistols again

http://ffutures.livejournal.com/522696.html

I've somehow got to get enough energy from a small cheap diamond to zap an immense amount of the countryside, and bond energy simply doesn't cut it - it would be about as much as you'd get from burning the diamond or a similarly sized lump of coal with a blowtorch.

Does carbon fusion (as seen in supernovas) seem even faintly plausible as the energy source?

Comments

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

does the energy have to be contained within the diamond? or couldn't you just use it as a focusing cascade? pulling the trigger releases a small electromagnetic chage from a little battery within the grip of the gun (or even one generated by the trigger pull in a generator coil), where that amount of energy is enough to resonate the crystalline grid in the diamond in a way to open a miniscule dimensional fracture through which enormous amounts of energy pour (for as long as that resonance is upheld). Of course, that amount of hot fiery death pouring into it fractures the diamond, which closes the dimensional fracture again (even if you were trying to accomplish a longer resonance time the fact that it all has to occur within the crystalline material sets a hard upper limit)

Don't even know if that idea would mesh with the source material at all

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

The diamonds are used up every time - the gun barrel also fails more often than not. I get the impression that the diamond is converted to energy in some way.

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

As I wrote in my idea, the process of channeling the energy occurs within the material structure of the diamond, which causes the diamond to disintegrate and vaporise. So it uses up the diamond every time too.