Massive Fuel Bills

[BEDROCK 10]

Japanese scientists have managed to achieve an electrical current of 100,000 amperes – by far the highest to be generated in the world – with cutting edge technology of stacking special tapes.

 

The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS), in Japan created an avant-garde conductor containing yttrium-based high-temperature superconducting tapes. Designed in collaboration with Tohoku University, the low-resistance joint technology involved in the conductor joints development only added to its mechanical strength.

 

The results obtained are overwhelming: the electrical current exceeds 100,000 amperes at the absolute temperature of minus 253 degrees Celsius (487 degrees Fahrenheit). Just to compare, the electric current intensity of a domestic power receptacle reaches only up to 25 amperes.

 

http://rt.com/news/175968-japan-highest-electrical-current/

 

Yikes, imagine the bill this would produce, you would need a lottery win to pay it off

[Obelix 11]

It's by no means the largest current ever made - that sort of current is routine in steel arc furnances and currents of several mega amps have been made in research labs for decades.

[Alcoblog 10]

I thought this was the largest currant ever ... until I discovered that it was in actual fact a tomato.