On average, a single lightning bolt produces 300 million volts and 30,000 amps of electrical current. This begs the question — just what type of scenario would require a generator that could create ...

The UMC Marx and all its subsystems are housed in the Pulsed Power Research Laboratory on campus. This lab enables students to design, build, and test large-scale pulsed power projects. One of the ...

Micro-fusion work of Friedwardt Winterberg from the 1950’s-1970s was recently declassified. Winterberg had several ideas for using micro-fusion without fission bomb triggers to generate nuclear energy ...

[Editor’s note: This video disappeared, but it has been archived here. We’re leaving the original links as-were in case they come back up.] The aptly named [LightingOnDemand] has created a Lorentz ...

What weighs more than 500 pounds, produces 500 kilovolts, and we don’t recommend you try at home in any way shape or form? If you guessed a rock disaggregation device, you’re correct! We also accepted ...

The idea of tesla coils are illustrated in this project which can produce big, fat, noisy sparks at least 2 inches long and be built quickly and cheaply. An array of resistors, capacitors, and spark ...