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Sup /k/, teoretical weaponry time.
A quench gun, a coilgun which uses superconducting properties to rapidly diminish a magnetic field, works basically by heating the superconductors til they lose their superconductivity.
What if we sort of do it the other way around, we use a normal coil to create a coil shaped magnetic bottle, we put a plasma in this coil and put a current trough it, this plasmacoil will generate a magnetic field and act like a normal coil, right.
A plasma, or ionized gas if you prefer, might not be superconductive, but there still is a temperature dependant jump in conductivity. so when we need to quench this gun, we cool the conductor(the plasma) instead of warming it.
i can already guess this would be quite impractical, but i find it quite fancy; so how possible would be, how well would such a setup work? I guess a lot would depend on how well the plasma conducts, google won't give me anything either so if someone knows i'd be happy if you share.
Image of railgun principle, a little related.
A quench gun, a coilgun which uses superconducting properties to rapidly diminish a magnetic field, works basically by heating the superconductors til they lose their superconductivity.
What if we sort of do it the other way around, we use a normal coil to create a coil shaped magnetic bottle, we put a plasma in this coil and put a current trough it, this plasmacoil will generate a magnetic field and act like a normal coil, right.
A plasma, or ionized gas if you prefer, might not be superconductive, but there still is a temperature dependant jump in conductivity. so when we need to quench this gun, we cool the conductor(the plasma) instead of warming it.
i can already guess this would be quite impractical, but i find it quite fancy; so how possible would be, how well would such a setup work? I guess a lot would depend on how well the plasma conducts, google won't give me anything either so if someone knows i'd be happy if you share.
Image of railgun principle, a little related.
