Talk:Chapter 112/@comment-2405:205:24A0:E758:0:0:120:48B0-20190713083437/@comment-78.148.253.62-20190713233542

Imagine you have a swimming pool that you can empty, but only through a drinking straw. The rate at which the water will come out is limited by the diameter of the straw and the weight of the water. Let's say that it's a strong straw, strong enough that as long as gravity and atmospheric pressure are the only things pushing the water through, that straw will hold indefinitely. Now imagine you could pressurise that water to 1000 Atmospheres. The straw will burst, but in that brief time before it does, the jet of water coming out will cut through steel. The rate at which Genos can draw down power  (not power to burn things, but mechanical power to hit things) is now right at the limit of what the parts can take before failing. There is no safety margin other than time. Catastrophic failure is the only thing waiting beyond ten seconds at full power.