Anybody ever dealt with these? I saw a demonstration of one while I was in the Army, and I have taken on the challenge of creating one. The tolerances for this thing are driving me nuts...and so is the issue of how I am going to generate enough elctricity to power the pulse if an when I do complete it. I haven't even gotten the rails together...and I probably won't, but I can say that I have attempted to build a rail gun. What I have now are two rails...I plan on seeing if there is an issue with the ATF before I go further.
If you have never heard of a Rail Gun here is an exerpt:
"Yahoo News is reporting that scientists at Sandia National Labs have created a magnetic pulse gun (rail gun) that can accelerate small aluminum plates at 34 kilometers per second, faster than the Earth travels through space. The accelerated plates strike a target after traveling only five millimeters, or less than a quarter-inch. The impact generates a shock wave -- in some cases, reaching 15 million times atmospheric pressure -- that passes through the target material turning matter into various states almost instantly (solids into liquids, liquids into gas, and even gas into plasma)."
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_RailGuns,,00.htmlThe demostration I saw was basically superconducting magnets pushing a ferous object at incredible speeds, but not this fast. I thin kthat is the approach I am going to go with.