> Tesla said his transmitter could produce 100 million volts of pressure and currents up to 1000 amperes, with experimental power levels of billion or tens of b

> Tesla said his transmitter could produce 100 million volts of pressure and currents up to 1000 amperes, with experimental power levels of billion or tens of billions of watts.(18) Where did this power come from? > If that amount of power were released in 'an incomparably small interval of time,'(19) the energy would be equal to the explosion of millions of tons of TNT, that is, a multi-megaton explosion. Err what? Watts is a measure of 'rate' not total energy. The smaller the unit of time the less the total energy transferred. 1 megaton of TNT is equivalent to 1.162 trillion watt hours. If you could generate and transmit 1 billion watts of energy, you would need to do this for 48 days and 10 hours before you've released the equivalent of a single megaton. Or, flipped around, 1 gigawatt over say 0.1s is only ~23.9 kilograms of TNT. A decent amount of energy, but nothing on the order of Tunguska.