> Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
> > So I take it a 1C is a fairly large charge then? (I remember hearing
that 1
> > Farrid is larger than any capacitor ever built - "built" being the
word!)


I used to work at the fusion research center here in the UK, and my office
was litterally meters from a room where they had 1000's huge caps - each
about 25cm in diameter. anyway they would charge them up and discharge them
through the plasma to induce currents of 1+ mega-Amps (hence the name MAST -
mega Amp spherical tokomak)

jim

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