[Noisebridge-discuss] stop a car remotely, win $200-500k (HERF gun time?)

Lee Sonko lee at lee.org
Thu Sep 9 06:31:54 UTC 2010


> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator

Want!



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[mailto:noisebridge-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] On Behalf Of Joel
Jaeggli
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 2:22 PM
To: David Kritzberg
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Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] stop a car remotely, win $200-500k (HERF
gun time?)

On 9/4/10 12:21 PM, David Kritzberg wrote:
> Could this be why the military is studying lightning?

Were I scheming in my mad-sciencetist lab, I'd probably avoid using
lightning to fry a target that's potentially a fuel truck...

there are after all plenty of easy and convenient (and readily
accessible in context) ways to blow shit up. that said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator

looks like fun...

joel

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> On Sep 4, 2010, at 11:58, travis+ml-noisebridge at subspacefield.org wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:52:06AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
>>> "optionally and additionally, it can be powered externally using 120 VAC
>>> or 12 or 24VDC power up to 150KW."
>>
>> lol...
>>
>> Actually I was thinking that you could have it operate in pulses, say
>> every X seconds (x ~= 5 or more for trucks), since you can't start up
>> a vehicle immediately.  If the duty cycle is low enough, you could do
>> it with much less average power.  Ex: Marx Generator:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator
>>
>> Oh, and if anyone's interested in the "do crazy stuff with high
>> voltage", see this site.  The videos are amazing.
>>
>> http://www.powerlabs.org/
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