Re: beanstalks (was Re: Metallic hydrogen ...)
From: Henry Spencer (henry_at_spsystems.net)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:38:46 GMT
In article <HKVxc.14674$1L4.6667@okepread02>,
Gordon Couger <gcouger@NOSPAMprovalue.net> wrote:
>When the current discharges down the cable it vaporizes and forms plasma and
>becomes even a better conductor for the rest of the current. Not only
>destroying you beanstalk but producing an EM pulse that will kill most
>electrical equipment in several 100 square miles.
Hard to imagine how we could ever have developed electricity, with every
thunderstorm doing that.
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