Transmitting one hundred and fifty thousand kilowatts of spark power at low voltage is a heat suicide pact.
If you try to push fifty thousand horsepower through spark wires at household voltages of one hundred and twenty volts, Ohm’s law exacts a brutal penalty.
The current needed would exceed one million two hundred thousand current units.
At that current thickness, the conductors would have to be as thick as ancient oak trunks. The resistive heat loss would melt the metal into puddles of bubbling melted rock waste before the electricity traveled fifty yards.
Giles stood in the central machine shop of the lower heavy-duty ward, his hands resting on the high-pressure controls of the newly assembled three-thousand-ton level extrusion press.
Behind his eyes, the test model screen was calculating the cross-sectional shape of high-purity spark conductors.
The refining of the copper had been a masterpiece of chemical metalworking.
In the reverberatory fire at the lower smelter, Master Borin had overseen the poling of thirty tons of molten metal.
