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Re: [TCML] A Safe Tesla Coil - was: Tesladownunder update, briefcase coil, lots of sparks etc



Stephen Hiscock wrote:
That's a Billion Watts of peak power!! - Awesome!!
But was this an educated guess or did Tesla measure this current? and what with? I guess he could have used a compass that was nearby and then extrapolated maybe?



gigawatt peak powers are actually fairly easy to come by. Consider the usual run of the mill quarter shrinker. Discharge a kiloJoules in a few microseconds, and that's gigawatts.

Even easier to come by gigawatts with explosives
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