[Pontiac]

First off, to propel spacecraft to necessary speeds, a massive amount of power will need to be stored and discharged over roughly thirty seconds, think between 50 and 100 gigawatts! That's equivalent to the power output of around 50,000 commercial wind turbines.

Or 50 to 100 full size nuclear power plants.

That is a lot of power.

And I can’t imagine the size of the capacitor banks that it would need to store that power for quick release at “around 200 million amperes!”

I can’t imagine the noise that it would make when those capacitors were discharged

[Axenolith]

Imagine if someone hooked it up to a door knob!

[minnesota_bound]

Imagine the noise and flash from 200 million amps if there was a short circuit!

[BlueLancer]

100 gigawatts!!!