{"id":51,"date":"2006-10-25T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2006-10-25T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T11:32:00","slug":"are-you-aving-a-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/are-you-aving-a-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you &#8220;&#8216;Aving a Laugh&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To quote Andy Millman (Ricky Gervaise&#8217;s character in the second series of Extras). I posted an article on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhbolton.com\/\">main website<\/a> &#8211; a DIY EMP generator. It&#8217;s purely speculative on how one might do such a thing, and possibly a very silly thing to write about. <\/p>\n<p>EMP is a phenomena associated with Fusion (and I think Fission) weapons that generates a very high voltage (potential difference) and current in a very short space (in a very short time). It was only declassified a few years ago- <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electromagnetic_pulse\">Wikipedia<\/a> has more than you ever need to know on the subject. Anything electronic would have a very rough time of it &#8211; like being hit by lightning. <\/p>\n<p>Makes a bit of a change from <a href=\"http:\/\/portent.org\/archive\/2006-08-09\/water_rocketry_low_tech_scienc\">Water rockets<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To quote Andy Millman (Ricky Gervaise&#8217;s character in the second series of Extras). I posted an article on my main website &#8211; a DIY EMP generator. It&#8217;s purely speculative on how one might do such a thing, and possibly a very silly thing to write about. EMP is a phenomena associated with Fusion (and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhbolton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}