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mehavey
I suggest a railgun.
That would solve the problem.
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The rail gun was a Reagan era parlor trick that many in the defense biz got paraded past.
Rail guns were either capacitor discharge or rotating disc discharge.
I know some guys who bought the surplus rail gun equipment for less than pennies on the dollar.
At that warehouse amateur lab, the rail gun concept did not work as well as the steam gun concept, using the same low ESR low ESL high value high Voltage capacitor bank. We charged it with a neon sign transformer and diode stack.
That was back in the 1990s, but I still have some shrunken coins from the steam gun experiments.
Wrap a wire around a coin and put a million Amps through the wire. The wire explodes into bullet like pieces, and the coin gets an eddy current that makes a magnetic field that interacts with the magnetic field from the wire.