Comment on Perpetual motion eludes us again.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 14 hours agoThat’s not how a railgun works, that’s how a coilgun works. Railguns create a loop of electric current that flows into one wire, through the projectile into the other wire, and back down to the starting point again, this configuration creates a force that pushes the projectile down the rails
msprout@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Ah, I appreciate the correction. I’m not an engineer but the youngest cousin of a clan of them, so I just got the highlights of the true evil genius shit. :p