Kranken and other sea monsters
Was "Kranken" (or giant squid) some kind of machine?
What is "Kranken" (1) was some kind of machine, like centrifugal cannon, which got its power from the capillary effect. In this case, the system, what seems a little bit like squid, would have the tube, what goes deep inside the water. Then the capillary effect will start to rise water inside the tube, where is the Archimedean screw, and that thing would make the system rotate.
The power for the ammunition would be given by using a combination of the water pressure and rotating structure, which will give the sling-effect to that ammunition. And if we would have enough deep point in the bottom of the sea, the water pressure itself would be devastating.
Use water pressure as a power source and weapon is an interesting idea. If the submarine or surface ship would drop the tube in the depth, and the water would go through the turbine wheel, and that power can be used to load batteries, or as the power supply or in the case of the small vessel it can move it forward.
In some cases, there have been introduced the systems, where the capillary power would give the power supply to the small size, laser or microwave-based systems, which can be used as the anti-aircraft or anti-ship ECM-weapons. Those weapons would use EMP-strikes against their targets, and the capillary tube makes them very small size. That means that those ECM- or EMP systems can be placed in the bottom of the sea, and when those systems are needed, they will be released to the surface.
"Green energy" would give freedom, and that allows long-term power-supply to the military and civil systems. The problems with nuclear-power are the price of the systems and also if the nuclear systems and radioactive material are going to the hands of terrorists, that will cause very big problems for national security.
The modern EMP-weapons doesn't need a nuclear explosion to create the high-power EMP-pulse. One of the most interesting ways to create an extremely high-power EMP-system is to use capacitors, which would store the high-voltage electricity. That kind of system can be used in the ground-based or ship-mounted systems, whose mission is to defend areas against enemy missiles.
Those systems are similar, what is used in the particle accelerators, and when the system would release the energy to radio-transmitters, it would give extremely powerful radio burst. That system can be connected to every radio transmitter in the world, and if that kind of system is targeted to some power lines, it will induct there a very high level of energy.
But there are also many other purposes for the middle- and high-voltage systems, which can transmit the electricity wirelessly. One of the systems, that can use them are new military drones, what power supply can deliver wirelessly. The problem with those systems is that they are needed power-supply also when they are flying over the sea area. The wireless power-supply allows also-small-sized drones the long term operational time.
The nuclear-powered submarines and RTG-generators are really good and effective tools, but the problem is that the submarines cannot be everywhere, and the RTGs have one more problem. There is a risk that terrorists would get the radioactive material in their hands.
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