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mminer237
on Jan 9, 2024
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GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, p...
So say 10 gigawatts over 50 microseconds. So you could charge it up in about 3½ minutes from a standard residential outlet.
danbruc
on Jan 9, 2024
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Wikipedia says a typical lightning bolt releases 1 GJ, so 10 GW you can have for 100 ms, for 50 µs you can have 20 TW. And most importantly 1.21 GW for the better part of a second, 826 ms to be precise.
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