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Can't be right at all. Photo flash capacitors store hundreds of joules, and if you short them out all you get is a fairly exciting *pow*. Lightning strikes light trees on fire, melt sand, vaporize metal..


I think he meant 10^8 instead of 108.


Oh! Of course.




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