• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    For cars, you’re gonna need something a bit bigger. Large coil, capacitor bank to generate a static field and some high explosives to disrupt that field to give the pulse. It fries the wires in a car. Single use only.

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      6 hours ago

      You’re going to need some really big conventional explosives to affect an EMF in any way. Not clear on the math, but at that point, blowing up the vehicle with a smaller amount of explosives would be much more efficient.

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      22 hours ago

      Sounds like an awesome YT video for backyard scientist or action labs or alpha phoenix or definitely styro pyro

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        13 hours ago

        “Sorry but I only have video about the construction process. All the cameras I’ve set up got fried when I’ve set this thing off, including the memory cards. It even messed up the magnetic tape in the old school relic we had as a backup. With that out of the way, let’s get into the construction. This episode is sponsored by …”