Joeviocoe wrote:
but they were using aluminum cans as the metal shell.
Like soda cans?
As delt0r said, they are pretty thick. The Sandia MAGLIF concept uses a similar idea of a thin Be can instead of aluminum to compress a ~100 eV magnetized plasma. As delt0r said, the problem is switches. The other issue is mechanically reloading on a useful time scale. The LANL tests damaged the test chamber badly with Q<<1. They intend to operate at very low rep-rate with high gain but it is a difficult concept to engineer.
