Re: About the skin effect in humans

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

 > Unfortunately, Tesla estimated his voltage outputs with spark lengths ---
a
 > serious problem that has fooled many an experimenter and even university
 > professors.  RF spark length applies to available power and especially
 > current.

Not just for RF.. The key thing for the long spark length is the non-uniform
field.  This is a real problem for EHV powerline designers, especially
above 500kV, where the experimental literature reports much longer sparks
than one would expect for the voltage.