PSHAW, just 136 Megavolts as 22 Amps, it’ll be fine.
He did say the suit had built in heating
Since 3GW must go somewhere, and it’s probably going to be into heat, can anybody calculate how many seconds can a human-sized object absorb 3GW of power before burning up?
Staying this close to anything emitting 3GW of heat looks like a bad idea.
I like how functionally iron man 1 negates the plot of the first Avengers movie because stark made a pocket fusion reactor that would absolutely eliminate the energy demands of the world and remove the need tk research the teaseract as an alternative energy source.
But Tony also was a self indulgent billionaire who wanted the technology bordering on magic to himself. Yes, it COULD have negated the plot, but didn’t
He can’t plug the whole world on his chest. IM2 specifically starts with him telling Congress “it’s mine, you can’t have it.” Extrapolate.
But wasnt the stark tower supposed to hava a reactor to power the city.
Yes under his terms. He’s still a trillionaire businessman that needs projects for tax write offs.
Yes. If they had kept up with Stark pushing for clean energy and environmentalism, it would have made his opposition to Thanos’s eco-fascism more interesting. Instead, Thanos just represented how rich people view all environmentalists. A threat to their private jets.
I always assumed the small wires were just for control or telemetry of some sort and the reactor itself had contacts on it that transferred power through a socket.
Though I guess that wouldn’t make sense on the one in Tony’s chest.
My thought is that they just powered the electromagnet magnet in his chest, and the reactor interfaces with the suits through some other interface. He doesn’t plug the suit into a wire coming out of his body.
Make its output in the teravolt range, and you’ll only have to deal with milliamps.
If that were the case it would arc flash anything grounded in a 300km radius. Iron Man with literally be shooting lightning from every orifice.
Well, that is a problem for a different department 😃
It’s probably vibranium. It‘s always vibranium.
The wires are just for the magnet. The suits are powered via contract to the reactor frame. (That’s still a more than two DeLorians worth of power drawn through a 10 cm ring. Hello 3rd degree burns.)
Those look closer to 14AWG to me but yeah.
Suuuuuper high voltage, almost no current needed.
That was my immediate reaction too, but then I wonder how you could possibly insulate such extreme voltage
Still gonna have heat that will melt the insulation and at extreme voltage it will arc through the insulation.
Heat is a function of current, not voltage.
But yes, insulation would need to be extreme.
Watts is volts x current.
Ohms law means you can algebraically substitute V = I * R
P = i^2 * R
P = VI
P = V^2 * R
Should be P = V^2 / R, but other than that, yes exactly.
Everyone saying “it scales with voltage” or “it scales with resistance” are describing different sides of the same coin. At the end of the day, the thing we’re talking about is just power, you can pick and choose whichever version of the power formula that you want.
Heat is actually a function of power, which is voltage times current.
Yes, but the power dissipated by a wire is, roughly speaking, a function of current, with the voltage across the wire depending on the current and the wire resistance (Ohm’s law). For a wire, you use P = I2 R, and for a load, you use P = V2 / R.
In other words, the current through a wire is dependent only on the load and its power supply, while the voltage across it depends on both the current and the size of the wire. Hence, it’s cleaner to talk about the current
This is why AWG charts always give a current rating, not a power rating:
You’re right, current is a fine proxy for practical purposes like sizing wires and such. I was just being a bit pedantic in that heat fundamentally is power dissipation.
Joule’s first law (also just Joule’s law), states that the power of heating generated by an electrical conductor equals the product of its resistance and the square of the current. Heat is a function of current, not total power.
See Blue_Morpho’s comment above. The things you’re describing as the product of resistance and the square of the current is power.
Heat is literally power dissipation. Saying “heat is a function of power” is essentially a tautology.
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Yeah that insulation is only rated for 600V, try again
Like Tony Stark lets ratings stop him.
Ratings mean nothing to Tony Stark, and the very laws of physics look the other way when he glares at them. He probably just licks the terminals to see if it’s on.
Tony Stark doesn’t care about cable ratings, it’s the cables that do care about Tony Stark’s (movie) ratings.
imo iron man was never sci-fi, it was more of a magical realism where the “rule of cool” is law.
I mean we’re talking about the same universe that has the likes of Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch bending and breaking every single possible rule of physics with a flick of the wrist.
Maybe they were adamantium superconducting wires?
vibranium probably. Ur-metal for space aliens.
The Dude is just tripping again.
That’s just like your opinion, man.
The government did this so that repillians can contact children’s minds directly and make them sheeple.
…oh wait, 3G?.. No, that one’s fine.
