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Re: Lightning Generator
Subject: Re: Lightning Generator
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 01:27:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
At 12:19 AM 5/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Subject: Re: Lightning Generator
> Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 12:13:04 +0500
> From: "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>
>
>On Sat, 03 May 1997 19:40:55 EDT Mark S Graalman
>wb8jkr-at-juno-dot-com wrote;
>
>> I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with that statement Robert, static
>> simply implies potential, not AC or DC. A lightning stroke has a
>> fast rise time, it is a RF voltage.
>
>Your partialy right Mark. Static really means not moving as in the
>charge on a Van De Graff BEFORE any spark appears. It has nothing to
>do with potential just an accumulation of electrons on a surface.
>Once the electrons move as in a spark they are no longer static but
>constitute an electric current, either A.C or D.C depending on
>whether the current flows only in one direction which is D.C. or
>if it is oscillatory (changes direction) which is A.C.
>
>
Electrostatics (sic static), is pure scalar potential alone and only
potential. The study of electrosatics deals totally with potentials
(charges supposedly brought from infinity - HA!) and the forces acting
between them. Charge is a collection of ions, electrons (charged
stuff).
All charge is taken relative to something else more or less charged or
it is
not recognizable as charge. This relative differential is potential and
is
literally a potential energy, as coulombic forces betwen charges
(potential
gradient) can exert tons of real world force with out a Yocto ampere of
current flowing. (in theory)
Richard Hull, TCBOR