----- Original Message ----- From: Morgan Olsson To: Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Free New Scientist weekly email newsletter > > http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992654 > > .. > > >I didn't read anymore for fear of losing brain matter in the > >process (a fear of a "net loss of intelligence" kind of thing) ... > > Agree. They can4t even differ between energy and power! In a contect > where it is obvious they would mean peak power (wats), they state > "peak energies of tens of millions of Joules" > > Bah. Who would believe the rest they write? > > Interesting way to make a "sweeping resonator" thugh, by crushing the > inductor in the LC cirquit with dynamite...! > > I really doubt a th eenergy in a bunch of capacitors can destroy anyting on > a distance though, as 99.9999999999 something of the released energy > will go to internal loss and all surrounding earth/water/space... > > Unless the target set up a very huge antenna... > > It will only make a noise peak. > > /Morgan I think the high energy for the EMP is actually comming from the explosive charge not the capacitors. The caps are just setting up a strong magnetic field, the explosive is doing the work against the field. Regards Sergio -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics