Re: TerraWatt Power

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Original poster: "Steve Greenfield by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alienrelics-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Where are you going with all this? If you increase the
BPS (bupkus per second?), then you don't increase the
power per break, you increase the number of breaks per
second so since each spark event has a duration, there
is a limit on how fast that can go.

And a femtoHz Tesla coil would take a very large coil
and toroid, indeed. As that would be 10E-15 Herz, or
10E15 seconds long sine waves. :'/

Now, if you meant a Tesla coil operating at 10E15 Hz
frequency, it gets similarly ludicrous. Light moves in
a vacuum at 300,000,000 M/Sec, so that is 3x10E8/10E15
= 3x10E-7 or 300nM wavelength. Since the end of the
visible spectrum is about 390nM, that puts this up in
high UV.

What was your point? I must have missed something.

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "Jim DeLillo by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimdel-at-bellatlantic-dot-net>
> 
> Terawatt -- If the time scales associated with
> femtolasers are ultra
> small, the
> intensity levels associated with the same lasers are
> ultra high. Pack a
> puny
> 1-millijoule amount of energy in a one-femtosecond
> laser pulse and its
> peak power
> will equal one Terawatt. That's more power than
> consumers use in the
> whole state
> of California. Focus this pulse down to the micron
> spot and its
> intensity will reach
> 1020W/cm2. Femtosecond is the land of extreme. 
> 
> 
> This seems to imply that rather than trying to
> increase the joules input
> into a
> Tesla Coil that by increasing the BPS  DRAMATICALLY
> ;-) that a
> substantial increase in
> power could be obtained.  Can we make a TC operating
> at FemtoHtz
> frequencies?
> 
> 
> One millisecond -- one thirtieth of a second (i.e.
> 33 milliseconds) is
> the time it
> takes human eyes to react to light. Project each
> frame of a home movie
> for one
> thirtieth of a second, and viewers, unable to
> distinguish separate
> frames, see
> continuous motion. Light, during the time one frame
> is projected,
> travels 6,200
> miles. If you climb aboard a light beam in Chicago,
> you'll be in Tokyo
> in the blink of
> an eye.
> 
> One microsecond -- a millionth of a second is the
> duration of the light
> from a
> camera's flash. Light that short freezes motion,
> making a pitched ball
> appear
> stationary.
> 
> One nanosecond -- a billionth of a second is the
> speed at which
> transistors in
> today's computers turn on and off to represent the
> ones and zeros of
> binary logic
> and arithmetic. It's a time-duration so short that
> light, which can
> speed seven
> times around Earth in the second between our
> heartbeats, travels only
> one foot.
> 
> One picosecond -- a trillionth of a second is a spot
> of time from the
> domain of
> period at the end of this sentence. Only with a
> laser that generates
> picosecond
> light pulses can scientists freeze the
> short-duration motion of
> molecules and
> produce images of what happens at the molecular
> level. Used in this way,
> the
> picosecond laser is comparable to a strobe, which
> can freeze the motion
> of a
> sprinter's stride in time-lapse photography.
> 
> One femtosecond -- is a quadrillionth, or a million
> billionth, of a
> second. It's a
> thousand times shorter than the picosecond snippets
> of time in which
> molecules
> react. Femtosecond pulses are the fastest man-made
> events. Nothing
> happens in
> a femtosecond.
> 
> 
> 


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