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19 million Amps
deblau writes "On July 27, scientists at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Nevada Test Site said they generated a current equal to about four times all the electrical current on Earth. During the few millionths of a second that it operated, the 650-ton Atlas pulsed-power generator discharged about 19 million amps of current through an aluminum cylindrical shell about the size of a tuna can. Official news release is available from the DOE (PDF)."
In operation, the 650-node Slashdot news-for-nerds generator successfully discharged nearly 19 million hits of HTTP requests through the NNSA Nevada Site Office News webpage, or PDF, on a server about the size and shape of a tuna can. The requests caused the server to implode at extreme speeds, with unrivaled symmetry, precision, and reproducibility.
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I did the math for everyone... it works out to One point twenty one jiga-watts, Marty!
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How much was the voltage? Would the power be more than 1.21 Gigawatts?
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"about four times all the electrical power on Earth"
Wouldn't that be all of the OTHER power on Earth? After all, this test was conducted on Earth, making even this discharge a subset of the "all the electrical power on Earth," but I digress. It's really amazing, though, to think this was pulse through a tuna-can sized hunk of aluminum. You'd think it melt. Tuna...melt....I really should stop.
On July 27, scientists at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Nevada Test Site said they generated a current equal to about four times all the electrical power on Earth.
Where did they do this experiment--Mars?
to power the beowulf cluster I just imagined.
Laugh kids... it's kinda funny.
I'll bet this amp goes to 11.
A group of lab-coated engineers having a barbecue using a 48 million dollar grill.
Any fool knows they could obtain just as much current by sticking a few boyscouts up on a pole... oops, bad taste...
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19 Million Amps, eh? Now all they need is 19 million guitars and the whole planet can rock out.
Of interest, the testing work here in Nevada has been farmed out to a private corporation. We now call it the Black Mesa Research Facility. Dr. Freeman and I have just started working together, and we have a number of exciting experiments underway. This last one in the story just happened, and it was very...
hold on, there's something moving out in the hallway, I've got to go check.
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I think tuna can be cooked with far less power.
Tuna can be cooked with much less power, but unforunately by slow cooking it you lose a lot of the natural flavoring. That's why this, the preferred solution by most gourmet chefs, cooks the tuna in a few millionths of a second.
Keep Pedalin Lance, we're at 19 Million Amps!
for when you want that extra edge
init 11 - for when you need that edge.
As if a million tuna cans cried out, and then were silenced?
>I can accept vague just fine.
Ok... maybe it needed to be set on "Wumbo."
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You must be new here...
Think those guys would let me borrow it? I'm going to be in Vegas next week and I don't want to find myself in Barney.....
Yeah, but you're using circular reasoning...
My girlfriends cat does this everymorning rubbing against my leg.
Stupid cat.
To hook that up to my nipples?
I just heat my tuna in a microwave... sure it is a little slower but my microwave doesn't weight 650 tons.
You work for NASA, right?
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Man, what do you have against apples?
I'd hate to piss off the practical joker of that lab.
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Sounds like the love scene from a Bulwer-Lytton romance novel contest.
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This is critical research - intel needs that much power for its next generation mobile processor.
I put something like that through my Pringles can and was able to ping a server in Tokyo.
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Damn! He was talking about fruits, not computers!
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