Re: Static Discharges from PE etc... (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:24:52 -0200
From: Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz <acmq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Static Discharges from PE etc... (fwd)

High Voltage list wrote:

> From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>

> A friend once wondered if you could do it with steam.  Superheated steam is
> a gas (insulating) and you could vent it through a condensing nozzle to form
> small particles, which could carry charge, much like a Kelvin water dropper.
> He was theorizing that it might be a way to power something floating at a
> high voltage, among other things.

Armstrong hydroelectric machine (1840).
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/mur305.jpg
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/chw104.jpg

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz