Because THERE ARE RAILGUNS IN EXISTENCE TODAY, and there are not tank-busting tesla towers. If the latter was more efficient we would have used that a long fucking time ago, but it's not because the strength of an electric field is inversely proportional to the square of the distance away from its source. The fall-off is so fuckfast that you wouldn't need a hundred huge buildings full of giant capacitors to even get close to the range and effectiveness of a railgun. We're talking about producing lightning bolts here, which require "weather" scale forces to produce. Billions of tons of cloud sliding past hundreds of miles of earth just to generate the spark big enough to jump the gap.
Electrofags get in here
Ryan Gray
Jose Lopez
but don't railguns launch projectiles?
What you think they are doing at HAARP?
Hudson Wright
Yes, which is exactly why they are more efficient than tesla coils. You pack all the energy into a lump of metal and make it go really really fast, and that lump of metal is only constrained by friction and gravity and none of those have inverse square roots. By converting the energy from one form into another form that is easier to transport from one place to another, you have made it more efficient.
Not fucking blowing up tanks with lightning bolts.
David Mitchell
It's more energy effective to genetically engineer cute girls with esper powers and employ them than to use tesla coils.
Cameron Howard
And the fringe benefits are out of this world.
Ian Kelly
It doesn‘t need to be that complicated. Dust is usually positively charged which result results in thunderstorms when they‘re accelerating high up by circular winds between high and low pressure areas.
You could just use a Dyson on reverse with high enough voltages.
Blake Jackson
I fucking knew that a retarded HAARP LARPEr was bound to appear on this fucking thread.
IT'S FOR FUCKING REFLECTOMETRY YOU GOD DAMN PEANUT SIZED SMOOTH BRAINED CHIMPANZEE
Jack Ward
no u
Justin Lopez
There's unironically lasers burning houses and incinerating cars, CIA nigger. The future is already here.
Carter Bell
Go ahead and google 'handheld railgun'
i dare you