ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area 19 million amps?

I can only imagine the amount of safety procedures and redundency required for this thing.

Dnk..

I saw a movie about something like this...had a flux capacitor and million gigawatts

X-Ray specs! I wanted a pair of those as a lad, and later in life I got some!
1977, working for HM Govt., I was making a model of a tool, with 2 cardboard tubes from toilet rolls, and for a laugh glued 2 ping-pong balls in the ends, painted on red irises and 'veins' and wired up a couple of arms each side. A bit of black tape made them look real technological. A colleague I shared a small office with started 'leering' out of the window at the office-girls going by with them, (you couldn't actually see a thing). I told this girl in the canteen they were the new 'X ray-specs' for the British Army. (Actually, like an idiot, my exact words were: "It's the new "De-nuder", for the squaddies. Top Secret, don't tell anyone!"). Such is the gullability of people, the following happened in quick succession:
a) Suddenly NO girls went past our window, all seemed to prefer a 200 yard detour to go a mere twenty feet.
b) Every other man on the plant descended on my office on some pretext, sometimes 6 at once, demanding to try out the "Denuder" urgently for their project. It was always 'out on trials at Otterburn moor', or 'up in London with the brasshats', or 'being upgraded'- we were enjoying this!
c) Got a call from the Director with a curt-"Mister Belson. De-nuder, my ar*e! Get rid of it!"
Ah, Fun while it lasted.
Alan

Thanks for the link, iwire.


That makes more sense to me. It is always nice when the article is written by someone who understands the topic.

Does anyone know what the total electric power production is worldwide?

[Dr.Evil]19 million amperes...muwaah ha ha ha!!! [/Dr.Evil]

Thanks for the links guys

The coin shrinking is very interesting, I wonder if the local shop still acceps them.

especially the square ones

Bet that makes the lights blink in Los Alamos

[This message has been edited by WFO (edited 12-25-2005).]