what exactly is a flux capacitor?

It is a tool that WE use to flush out utter idiots. It currently indicates that you made the list.

especially when it contains 1.21 GigaWatts of power. MARTY, do you know what that means? Loved the "back to the future" movies.

A cheap Hollywood movie prop.

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So then you can realign the field coils.

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It's a device that stores pseudo science, interpretations, speculation, vendor hype, environmental politics, and general rubbish. The flux accumulates until it is discharged into this newsgroup.

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Les Cargill

It's two metal plates, with the intermediate space filled with rosin. Duh...

Amusingly, saying that a charged capacitor sitting in a magnetic field "has 1.2 gigawatts" isn't that far fetched, at least if you're a fields guy.

The Poynting vector S is ExH times some constant that depends on whether you're a go-with-the-flow SI weenie or a right-thinking Gaussian units diehard.

Poynting's theorem says that the surface integral of S dot (n hat) over a closed surface gives the power flow out of the enclosed region, but it's commonly assumed that the Poynting vector itself gives the local power flow density.

This works okay for many purely AC problems. The amusing part is when you take a charged capacitor and put it in a DC field. You can make ExH take a very high value, when no power is actually flowing whatsoever. So a capacitor in a magnetic field could "have 1.2 gigawatts" in a certain sense.

Of course the only time travel involved is harking back to the days when Gaussian units were more popular. ;)

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Its a highly technical dumbass detector - and you just made the light flash.

Are you saying that he is a highly technical dumbass, or that the detector is highly technical, and detects dumbasses? :-)

That information is commercially sensitive.

ge

1:59:46 GMT, kael wrote:

hat

Why would it only be 1.21 GigaWatts? If it's a 1 farad cap charged to

2 volts, discharging into a nanaohm resistance, wouldn't it be more than that?

-Bill

11:59:46 GMT, kael wrote:

Prove it !

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w what

P = E^2 / R = 4 / 1 E-9 = 4 GigaWatts. E=2 and R = 1 nanaohm.

-Bill

Don't you mean JigaWatts!!!!

11:59:46 GMT, kael wrote:

You might need an Interociter to compute the number.

Well, I wouldn't want to buy one if it only detected one type of dumbass.

If you were a sales person, that would be followed by "dumbass'.

First have to see some dumbass who has one before he even tries to use it and set it off. ;-P