Thursday, April 5, 2007

Tesla Down Under

Check out http://tesladownunder.com/

It's an Australian site by this guy Peter who looks like he's built pretty much ever Tesla project you could think of, and then some. He's got some great exposures of this Eye of Sauron thing that he surrounded his car with, along with all sorts of different coils.

Also, the ultimate dream, the Railgun. Ever since Quake 2 I've been interested in them. The US Navy is apparently investing a lot in getting them set up on battleships (or maybe aircraft carriers.) The appeal is that you only need a simple projectile, but the speed at which it is launched is going to more than obliterate your target. The trick is building up enough power first, and of course that's where massive capacitor banks would come in.

The Railgun has been featured in a few different movies/games but my favourite was Eraser. They made it able to x-ray stuff as well (very tesla) but most importantly it gave off a really cool trajectory/trail that while unrealistic, ruled.

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