On 24-4-2009 15:50, Darren New wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> About the size of a 55-gallon drum.
> 
> And for those of you in metric lands, this is the size of a barrel in 
> video games. :-)
> 
> 
And for those metric and who don't play video games?

Even for a cell membrane (one of the best capacitors known to man IIRC) 
you'd still need a surface of 200 m2, about half a basketball court, for 
that.

Once I was in a lab when suddenly there was a load bang from a room 
somewhere else in the building. As load as a gunshot or louder (haven't 
heard one of those IRL, so I am just guessing). Casual comment from the 
guy I was with: oh it's only Martin. This Martin was doing experiments 
with a laser and he needed some capacitors of a more than a liter (the 
size of a large coke-bottle). Apparently every now and then one did explode.

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