"You wouldn't have a betatron in the place somewhere?" asked Don hopefully.
"Nope. Could we make one?"
"Sure. Have you got about a hundred pounds of Number 18 wire?"
"No."
"Then we can't."
"Couldn't you use a driver? Isn't that some kind of a beam?"
"Some kind," admitted Channing. "But it emits something that we've never been able to detect except in an atmosphere where it ionizes the air into a dull red glow."
"You should have been wrecked on the Sorcerer's Apprentice," laughed Hadley. "They're the guys who have all that kind of stuff."
"Have they?" asked Johannson.
"The last time I heard, they were using a large hunk of their upper hull for a Van Der Graf generator."