Universe's highest electric current found 10^18 Amps

[MajorOak]

Just saw this on the web

A COSMIC jet 2 billion light years away is carrying the highest electric current ever seen: 10^18 amps, equivalent to a trillion bolts of lightning.

Wonder what size conductor you would need to carry it without causing a fire at 70oC?

The team thinks magnetic fields from a colossal black hole at the galaxy's core are generating the current, which is powerful enough to light up the jet and drive it through interstellar gases out to a distance of about 150,000 light years

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I maybe out by a magnitude or 2? But calculating the size of the conductor with a current density of 4.02A/mm2 approx , it would need to be 2.5^17 mm2, 25 meters of it would weigh 100 million million tonnes.

At

 

[steptoe]

Canoeboy only thinks he works with large conductors!

 

[sprocketflup]

It would be 352 miles in diameter.

Try terminating in a shower then wonder if wagos do a connector that size?

 

[Apache]

Have you ever dismantled a disposable camera with a flash? They give a fair bite

 

[steptoe]

Have you ever dismantled a disposable camera with a flash? They give a fair bite

if your question is, have I been as stupid as you and dismantled a disposable camera with a flash?

then the answer is NO :slap

 

[sellers]

majoroak,

352miles in diameter, but what when the suns shining and the cable is insulated in a meteor shower, more like 704miles in diameter!

 

[SteveT]

What about diversity?

 

[Evans Electric]

Is it equal to Badger's Christmas lights though.

 

[MajorOak]

Is it equal to Badger's Christmas lights though.

25 metres long and 563 Kilometres in diameter, sounds about right!!

The house will probably be in constant shadow so the lights would be handy and it will be easy for Santa :Welcome: to find his house.

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I have been having a think about this, what is or "watts" the voltage?? New Scientist never said!!??

Ok at 240 volts the wattage would be 24,000,000,000,000,000,000 watts. But if we increased the voltage to 330kV it would only be 72,727,272,727,273 Amps I think badger could save a significant amount of copper.

at 4.02Amps/mm2 it would mean we could reduce the cable to 18,091,361,374,943mm2 cable. Giving us a diameter of only 3 miles, that is some saving!!

Having said that, the voltage could be billions upon billions of volts, in that case I am off for a few pints of Stella she makes it all better and stops me thinking!!

 

[Evans Electric]

Major, the voltage from what you describe is so enormous it will travelling through space without the aid of wires .

 

[steptoe]

like Deke,

after he has been Stella.!!!!!!

 

[kerching]

Allow for temperature correction and FFS don't let it go through >100mm insulation for > 500mm or you WILL be in trouble...... :coat

 

[pickleye]

good luck finding someting to clip it too... have we considered voltage drop?

 

[sprocketflup]

good luck finding someting to clip it too... have we considered voltage drop?

thank the lord for voltage drop!

 

[MajorOak]

Major, the voltage from what you describe is so enormous it will travelling through space without the aid of wires .

You are right Deke the voltage must be astronomical!!

 

[Smilers]

I think someone needs some special tome with the wife! Clearly you have run out of things to do

 

[pickleye]

good thinking - special time with wife - beats trawling old threads :run

 

[steptoe]

I think someone needs some special tome with the wife! Clearly you have run out of things to do

you offering yours up?

Im intrigued by her special tome .

 

[steptoe]

one is one more than enough,

are you doing trades?

its gonna be a dodgy 50/50 Im thinking..........