290 trillion watts

[Winky]

about 80 times the entire world's output of electricity

 

[Gonz]

for billionths of a second

Can we get that up a bit?

 

[abooja]

Science rules!

 

[chcr]

Science rules!

 

[Winky]

http://fire.pppl.gov/aps_zpinch_leeper.pdf

 

[unclehobart]

It would be nice to be able to make a flash chargable battery that could consume a mere millionth of that. Then a major city could be run for a week off of a very small operation indeed.