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mk · 4032 days ago · link · · parent · post: So, What's the word? Have you recently pitched an idea...
I like the craziness of it, but weight is going to be the issue. If materials science could make a big leap forward I could imagine very short duration magnetic field generation between cars, maybe using doped graphene that could carry a current. Back in undergrad physics, a pal and I envisioned a car-based weapon that used a laser to ionize the air between two cars, then the alternator to charge a capacitor that discharged between the two cars. You could blast tailgaters. Several years later, we found it was more or less realized.