bah.. the tesla coil has got nothing on the maniacs in Lightning
on Demand 
they who have created this:
15,000 Ampere, 110,000 Volt
Multi-barrel Lorentz Gun
Close-up of the 30 barrel Lorentz Gun, with pneumatic tilt,
pan, and firing pilot valves
The Lorentz Gun can direct a 15,000 Ampere plasma channel through
the air along a straight trajectory, at grounded targets up to 35
ft downrange. The gun consists of 30 high pressure pneumatic dart
stations, each capable of launching a tapered aluminum sabot that
trails a thin 'seed wire' 0.008 inches in diameter. Cannon tilt and
pan is pneumatic, and a sighting laser is located inside the cannon
head. When a launched sabot contacts the target, the
Marx-configured capacitor bank automatically fires and erects the
bank to 110,000 volts, igniting a plasma channel along the
vaporized seed wire. The plasma channel quickly intensifies,
magnetically confined in the air by the Lorentz forces of its own
current. Damage to the target can vary widely. Most spectators
experience some degree of sinus discomfort after several firings,
due to the high brissance of the plasma explosion. The capacitor
bank is currently disassembled, and newer capacitors are being
added to increase the bank energy to 250 kilojoules, and the range
to 50 feet.
110kV capacitor bank and Lorentz Gun, fully
assembled
for the bigtime Tesla Coils, go here => HUGE Twin Tesla
Coil Project
