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In the March 2013 issue of Sky and Telescope, page 22 there's mention of a black hole generating a million trillion amps of charged particles. Imagine the overcurrent protection you'd need for that...

Paralleling a couple breakers ought to do the trick...

That figure is trivially small for a black hole.

Wa2sie,

No problem. I figure a Fed.-Pacific breaker should be able to handle it with out tripping!

Put one of Krugman's trillion dollar coins behind the fuse.