Re: Lifter with lights (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:49:19 -0700
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lifter with lights (fwd)

what about gold leaf or something similar.  How good a conductor does it
have to be?
There's also things like spacecloth and carbon fiber cloth.
> Ok. Several hundreds of uA is the minimum that these things appear to
> require. Maybe a super light one would rise with 50 uA. I tried to make
> one powered by an electrostatic machine that coud produce up to 100
> uA. The power was not enough, but the wind was significant. The question
> is just how to make a solid enough structure with really minimum weight.
> Maybe paper painted with conductive ink instead of metal foil? Or a thin
> wire net?
>
> > What would a 1500 W lifter look like?
>
> One with many small sections in parallel. The same voltage but lots of
> current.
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
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