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Originally Posted by Larry Jacks
To push that amount of electricity in 5 minutes, you'd need a system that would be sized to push 1080 kilowatts of electricity in an hour (90 * 12). Applying Ohm's law (Power = voltage * current), a voltage of 1080 volts would require a current of 1000 amps to carry 90 kilowatt/hours of electricity in 5 minutes. Personally, I wouldn't want to be anywhere in the area while that's going on. |
If you've ever been to a rock concert, you have been. They deal in these amperages all the time.
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