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Potentially Solving Desert Water Shortages Using 20,000 Volts to Condense Fog (www.youtube.com)

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[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 18 hours ago

I watched the video yesterday and it looks like he’s using wires that are no more than 18 gauge.

18 gauge wire can handle about a maximum of 14 amps, but I don’t think he was coming close to that. He was generating 35kV (I think - he had a few prototypes he gave stats for) off a battery pack.
I don’t really know the math, but it’s an inverse relationship if your power level is fixed. The battery pack can only deliver so much constant power, so it’s either high amps and low volts, or high volts and low amps. (Unless you put capacitors into the mix, but then it’s not constant power.)