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Default Good gawd, Drivel was right, after all.

On 17/02/2013 13:49, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 17/02/13 11:26, Brian Gaff wrote:
I think the answer has to be 'very large'

Brian

work on a tank of fuel being a couple of hundred kwh in electrical
terms. 200kwh in 1/60th of an hours is 12MW.

So about 13,000 amps at 240V..


Only 13A at 240 kV though!

(smiles at the thought)