[Onelifetogive]

Scientists at the Nevada Test Site have said they generated a current equal to roughly four times all the electrical power on Earth.

Current equal to power. I'd like to see them perform a "units analysis" on this equation...

[birg]

Perhaps the assumed a "standard" voltage and based their
comment on the current voltage product.

[E=MC²]

Again LOL. Yesterday, our local radio station announced that TECO energy had set an alltime summer demand record of (ta da) 9 megawatt hours. Seems endemic that the media confuses energy, power, voltage, current, etc.

[poindexter]

Current equal to power. I'd like to see them perform a "units analysis" on this equation...

How about units in the title: "Massive Electric Current..."

[HereInTheHeartland]

"Scientists at the Nevada Test Site have said they generated a current equal to roughly four times all the electrical power on Earth."

How did they generate 4 times more current than actually exists?
Editor wanted on line 1.

[Final Authority]

I was thinking the same thing. I want to know the voltage drop.

BTW, in the good old days when the USA actually developed new technology and used experiments to perfect it rather than computer simulations, I worked with a group who tested reentry materials, primarily for the MX missile system reentry vehicle but also the space shuttle leading edge surfaces. We used to fire a 10 mega Watt arc gun at the target. It was an air plasma jet fired into a supersonic evacuation stream. The target was placed in the path, instrumented with calorimeters and we set up high speed cameras to record data.

The noise, the shock wave, the plasma jet was real cool, even if it only lasted for about five seconds at a time. The problem was twofold, generating a reservoir of low pressure tanks (giant vacuum system) large enough to maintain a supersonic evacuation stream with a two foot opening, and storing enough power to maintain a 10 mega Watt power delivery. There were several thousand deep cycle batteries cabled together in both series and parallel to supply the power with the cables coming out of the buss being internally water cooled. They were like fire hoses.

Facilities like that are few and far between these days.

[dufekin]

These are journalists. Journalists don't need to bother with such trivialities as units. Precipitation this month 6 volts? Good enough for press work. Journalists aren't scientists and demonstrate their abject scientific illiteracy every time they write. Call it "fake but accurate" if you must, but they're the press and as such, they're never wrong.