http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RHoIUwqLo

(ok, not all of us are 20-somethings :)

Are you sure there isn’t a pile of duplicate coins out in the woods somewhere?

I mean have you looked?

Wow.

Then you go and announce it to the world and screw their webhost all to hell.

Seriously, interesting article

I had seen a video in the past of meteorologists triggering lightning strikes with rockets flown into thunderclouds trailing a kevlar/copper wire and toyed around with the idea of doing just that only with a weather balloon (or a bunch of party balloons) in place of the rocket. Hook the whole thing up to a fat copper solenoid with the other end grounded and bask in the B field you get. Problem is lightning is right around 40kA, but anywhere from 100 megavolts to a gigavilt or two, so I fear I’d run into major problems insulating individual turns on the solenoid.

If there was some way I could build a super-transformer that could step down my voltage by a couple orders of magnitude you could get some pretty fat current. same problem though, insulation and ohmic heating problems.

I’d be interested to hear what kind of B fields these guys are getting out of their coils.