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(0.1 mm^2 is half the cross-section of AWG 24, getting close to hair thin.) I don't think you're correct here. For round numbers, let's take a 100 kW engine (1
by ableal 11y ago
(0.1 mm^2 is half the cross-section of AWG 24, getting close to hair thin.)
I don't think you're correct here. For round numbers, let's take a 100 kW engine (134 hp), and suppose we feed 100 V. At full power, we'd be running 1000 Amps down that wire. Even at 1 kV it would take 100 A.
Better get a superconductor. Or a much thicker power cable.
- pdx 11y agoHe was using the wire AWG as a way to visualize the size for those of us that are familiar with human hair, but unfamiliar with visualizing things that are fractions of a mm thick. He was not saying anything about replacing the amazing energy density of gasoline with electricity over a copper wire.