This is not good. There's not enough output.

Why is it failing?

What we want is to drill a hole through that plate, not burn it down completely...

Scary, isn't it? It's her idea.

She's trying to make an optical weapon.

That could burn and kill the enemy by shooting an intense beam of light at them.

A pity. With the current technology, the best we can do is only make small burns on the surface of the plate.