Microwaves will also superheat any metal objects in a person's body, which
will usually cause some pretty severe damage. If there's any cyborgs in
your game, a microwave could probably kill all of them. Maybe some kind of
religous group takes control of the transmitter and uses it to fry all the
cyborgs.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hamilton
To:
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: GM: Solar microwave plants
> If I remember correctly, the reason a microwave oven works the way it does
> is because the microwaves are at a specfic frequency, which matches the
> vibration frequency of a water molecule. The microwaves excite the water
> molecules, which heats up everything around them. I would imagine a
> microwave transmission system would be designed to _not_ be at this
> frequency, in order to reduce the damage done to biological materials, and
> cut down on energy loss through the atmosphere. I don't know any
specifics
> on the potential technology, though, so I can't give details or places to
look.
>
> -Bill
> At 11:12 PM 1/27/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> > >likely someone wants to use it to cause havoc over an entire city;
> > >sweeping the "beam" over a major metro area will start fires, cause
> > >accidents and injury, knock out communications, and so forth.
> >
> >I can see focusing the beam on an airport or refinery causing severe
damage,
> >but they lack the penetration to, say, barbeque the assembled United
Nations
> >delegates.
> >
> >one interesting effect to note - water heated by microwaves doesn't boil
as
> >well. When heated from outside, small steam bubbles form which increase
> >surface available for evaporation and thereby hold the water temperature
at
> >boiling point. Because microwaves heat the entire volume of water it can
> >rise to a much higher temperature. People are burned from time to time
when
> >they superheat a mug of water in a microwave and toss in their instant
> >coffee mix. The sudden influx of air particles sets the cup off in an
> >explosive boil of superhot water, very nasty.
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