The Plasma Railgun fires a traveling charged pulse with high accuracy out to long range. When zoomed, the weapon's power is charged up through several stages until reaching full power. The charge can ...

Investments will fund NearStar Fusion's first-generation plasma railgun and experiments on prototype fuel targets at hypervelocity. Our design is well-suited to retrofit coal burning power plants and ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: “I don’t think that you can think of it as an offshoot of the classic railgun technique since the railgun is more a linear motor (moving mag field) approach using a fixed ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Dennis Killinger, a professor emeritus of physics at the University of South Florida, called the idea “intriguing.” “The idea seems possible,” he told the National ...