Morbias let me get this straigh, just exactly what are you questioning, my explanation or a tried and trusted technology or the technology itself.
I suggest you read the articles (there are 1000's more out there) and maybe give the authors a ring , some professor at Harvard university would love that, they don't get out much.
You seem to think this is some sort of personal attack... well it's not so chill out!
Maybe I didn't explain it properly so I'll try to put it as simply as I can.
Mike mentioned the Flamethrower coils; there is a 3 ohm one and a 1.5 ohm one that you use with a ballast resistor.
The 3 ohm coil has an 80:1 ratio, the 1.5 ohm coil has a 100:1 ratio, therefore the output voltage of both setups is going to be more or less the same, so basically the whole argument of the 3 ohm setup putting out more volts than the 1.5 ohm setup doesn't really hold up. It looks like the manufacturer has put more secondary windings and thus a higher step-up in the 1.5 ohm coil in order to compensate for the ballast resistor.
This means that even though both setups have a similar output voltage, it's only the output current that's lower on the 1.5 ohm setup. The current affects the spark duration, not the kick of it; therefore on an EI ignition system where dwell is not a problem there shouldn't be any worry about spark duration anyway due to the coil not charging fully so unless you run a ridiculously large spark plug gap or extremely high revs where dwell might again be a problem, there doesn't really appear to be much benefit of the 3 ohm Flamethrower setup over the 1.5 ohm + ballast one.
That is all I was questioning.