The nature of "repulsor burns"

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

Ok, so with the large number of fics (and comparatively small number of comics) I've read, plus movies, cartoons and the like, I've found more than a few references to "repulsor burns".

Now, most of these seem to be referring to something aking to a friction burn, and that makes a lot of sense to me, but a few seem to be more of a heat burn. The only real canon source I've seen so far where anyone's been seriously hurt by repulsors is Extremis, so any help would be great!

(The bigbang tag is because I need to know this so I can beta a fic properly :/ )

Comments

[bethany-cabe.livejournal.com]

They give off a bit of heat, I think, but not much, and he's certainly capable of making them totally temperature-less, because that's one of the features of Pepper's Rescue armour. In her case, this also applies to the jet-boots. That being the case I don't imagine he'd have then left it off his own armour, since that's a big health and safety boost when attempting to rescue citizens without torching them.

[shariangel.livejournal.com]

"these repulsors are implemented into the palms of his battlesuit..." that's an odd line there. What's he use for flight then?