Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Finally, maybe we'll get a good battery technology after all.
The folks at MIT have figured out how to make "ultra" capacitors (which just sounds to me like "extra-spiffy" capacitors) small enough to be a replacement for chemical batteries. Imagine a battery with a lifetime of a decade or more that has enough zap to start your car. Small enough, with a capacitor's ability to discharge, and you're also talking a practical self-defense tool too. Pulse-discharge bullets, anyone? :o)
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The anti-pollution effects alone would be immense. Chemical batteries are bad business.
Yup, and it'd help drive the lead industry outta business too, which I'm all for. They're a bunch of crooks.
You should have seen the damage they did to SE Dallas bordering on Oak Cliff... pollution nearly beyond belief. The first time I ever saw a sign saying "contaminated area, do not walk."
Actually Metal Storm has already built a handgun that used electric discharge. The propellent is still gunpowder, but its the electric charge to set it off. No moving parts, four barrels with something like 5 or 6 rounds per barrels (so we are talking a 20 to 24 round capacity), and a special chip so it only fires if the "safe Chip" is within 6 inches (you wear a ring or have it emplaced in your watch).
I've seen the demo. I meant bullets that discharge into their targets.
Yep. So you can wing him and still drop him. A far more reliable version of taser.
Yep. So you can wing him and still drop him. A far more reliable version of taser.
Um, more lethal was my intention.
Oh, that works too. Yeah, more lethal is good.
Hey, why not collect the whole set? On the civilian level, less lethal means I'm more able to use it...
Burst weapons that you will fire over an area and when it goes boom it knocks everyone in its range unconscious. Sounds like a great idea..
I think we call those 'grenades'.
Nah, I'm thinking fry the bastards. Put a kA through them and they're not getting up. Plus, it could be made not to penetrate walls very well. Lethal home defense without tagging the 3-year old kid in the apartment next door.
Especially if you can fit it in a .22 short...
even a spring-loaded dart would do the trick: not a kinetic kill
Haven't they been working on stun grenades and such that use a 'pulse' effect to knock people out?
Yes, but that's a percussion effect, not an electrical discharge.
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