I have no idea what the strength of it is, but I think they're more
concerned with the density. If you have a lot of money to waste, you
can get bismuth shot for hunting waterfowl, since lead is illegal for
that purpose and people don't think steel transfers enough energy.
> Bert Pool once described pig pole transformers and the incredible
power
> they could handle...he said if your arm got near it, you would pull
away
> a piece of charcoal where the arm had been....we had been discussing
> making a really powerful Tesla coil and how best to supply it with
raw
> power....
Yeah, he has some pictures on his web page of someone abusing one of
those transformers. The output looks more like a sheet of fire than an
electrical arc.
-- Excuse me, but I'm in the middle of fifteen things, all of themannoying. --Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5