Thread:Mr.Robbo/@comment-3582436-20131105000112/@comment-5135903-20131105182044

The original intention of plasma explosives seems to be to disable or damage electronic equipment (if that's what you mean by 'disable electricity). We have weapons like this today in the form of EMP (electromagnetic pulse) bombs.

EMP bombs work in a similar way to explosively pumped flux compression generators, using explosives to dramatically boost the power of a conventional electromagnetic field. In the case of EMP bombs, this is made to create a powerful electromagnetic pulse, inducing such large currents in nearby conductors (such as in circuits) that it can mess up computers or even 'fry' electronics, making them permanently inoperable.

Objects can be shielded against electromagnetic pulses by a Faraday cage.

However, humans have actually developed explosive devices that can disable electronics using electromagnetic pulses, create huge increases in temperature, potentially melt rock, temporarily create large amounts of plasma, destroy cities and instantly incinerate objects at close range. We call them nuclear weapons.