Barry Kirk wrote: Aha,
So, in that case, by the time the last core has fired, the first core is ready to fire again. Cool. The power rarely needs to touch the cap.
Now all you need is about $1G and the political will to build it with no history. We really do have to solve the problem of how to store the energy for the next pulse without using a capacitor. I’m halfway wondering about a very long coil like ancient guitar reverbs used…