Talk:Laser Trooper/@comment-5526680-20130812112829/@comment-173.48.159.2-20130823205751

If you look up some of the more powerful lasers in the world, you'll find that the most powerful laser is a pulsed laser, not a continuous laser because of the immense energy cost. Therefore, it's plausible that the laser employed by the trooper is a pulsed laser because it wouldn't be physically possible to carry a massive power supply to continuously burn your target instead of using an array of capacitors or transformers (I think) to store the energy for each shot and charging in between from a much more reasonable power supply.