Author Topic: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon  (Read 141 times)

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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2025, 03:36:52 PM »
"The plasma channel had an adverse affect on the electronics."

Oh, ya think?  :rofl:

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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2025, 04:31:30 PM »
https://youtu.be/Cse3pUxvecY?si=dLk8YJeY6xa5PuR2

I thought those only existed in science fiction.

I guess it's going to need a bit more work before they're small enough to carry around as battle rifles and sidearms, though.
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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2025, 05:02:49 PM »
I just want one aimed my my bird feeders for the squirrels and raccoons.
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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2025, 06:10:57 PM »
Not in the 40-watt range.

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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2025, 07:36:52 PM »
So it is more of a super powered taser. 
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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2025, 07:38:22 PM »
So it is more of a super powered taser.

Not really. A laser is a tightly-focused beam of light. This is a lightning bolt.
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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2025, 07:53:31 PM »
Not really. A laser is a tightly-focused beam of light. This is a lightning bolt.
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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #9 on: Today at 07:55:09 AM »
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Well that sucks. It was available and really cool.
The guy knew what he wanted to do but had to wait 30 years for the technology for the capacitors to advance and become more affordable.
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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #10 on: Today at 10:11:34 AM »
So it is more of a super powered taser.

Pretty much.
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Re: OK, I want this. Lorentz plasma cannon
« Reply #11 on: Today at 12:02:00 PM »
It reminds me of the lightning researchers who "call down" a bolt from a local thunderstorm by shooting a model rocket into the clouds that's trailing a thin wire - the bolt follows the wire (vaporizing it in the process) and hits their instrument package on the ground where they do their sciency stuff.

Except here they provide artificial lightning.
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