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From: hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal Lillywhite)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: HV Cap Fun!
Keywords: capacitor,energy,paradox
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Date: 5 Jun 89 16:37:50 GMT
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In article <11888@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@fenchurch.UUCP (Jeffrey Siegal) writes:
>Anyone know how close to "perfect" toroidal superconducting inductors
>are?

If they are carrying infinite (or even very large) current, there
ain't no such animal!  The critical current will be exceeded and the
superconductivity destroyed.  This will effectively prevent a zero
resistance short between 2 capacitors.  Nice to think about but
according to currently understood physics impossible to achieve.