Terry Blanton writes, > But the laser is notoriously inefficient. It can easily take 500 > milliWatts of input to get 50 milliWatts of laser energy.
Yes, that is true of the older gas discharge laser. The CO2 laser was only 1-2% efficient, if memory serves. The newer generation of LED array lasers however is high efficiency and, fortunately, the low-cost diode lasers designed for such things as data storage are exactly in the correct range for this LENR work. Jones