Talk:Z-pinch

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In Ocean's Eleven (2001), a Z-pinch system is used to disrupt power in Las Vegas so that the gang could break into the casino vault without tripping the alarm.

I've removed this text from the article because I do not believe it is accurate. Based on the little technical information available in the movie it sounded like they were describing an explosively pumped flux compression generator. In the movie they called it a "pinch" as I recall, but that would also accurately describe the operation of a EPFCG... and a EPFCG would actually have a chance of doing what they claimed the device did. --Gmaxwell 04:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Holy crap, thats not red-linked?!!@#! cool! --Gmaxwell 04:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Back in, but with your proviso and under a trivai banner --Snori 06:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Further regards Ocean's Eleven, see:

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=%22visually+believable+for+the+camera%22&qt_s=Search 

--Snori 06:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First z-pinch device - perhapsatron - was at Los Alamos

Hi,

According to the Fusion power page and this article the first z-pinch device was the perhapsatron. I'm changing the text to state this.

-kg