In article ,
Pat Flannery wrote:
"homopolar generators"? Sounds like a gay sex toy.

...were working on it to drive lasers and rail guns.

The thing they carefully never mentioned in the press releases was that a
big rack full of truck batteries actually worked better, delivering the
same output with less mass and much lower cost. The homopolar-generator
guys kept promising that the *next* version was going to do better...

The experimental railgun at Eglin AFB ran off a big shed full of Sears
Die-Hards.
--
MOST launched 30 June; science observations running | Henry Spencer
since Oct; first surprises seen; papers pending. |