From: Greegor on
G > This "reverse lightning" might possibly
G > be of some value if you want to harmess
G > atmospheric static electricity.

Archimedes' Lever 72.197.137.141 Cox Oceanside
AL > ALL lighting, and certainly any that you
AL > would end up capturing, regardless of
AL > what direction it was shot or where you
AL > caught it at, is 'atmospheric static electricity',
AL > silly man.

Then what are you arguing about?

http://amasci.com/static/what_is_static.html

From: Greegor on
G > This "reverse lightning" might possibly
G > be of some value if you want to harmess
G > atmospheric static electricity.

Archimedes' Lever  72.197.137.141 Cox Oceanside
AL > ALL lighting, and certainly any that you
AL > would end up capturing, regardless of
AL > what direction it was shot or where you
AL > caught it at, is 'atmospheric static electricity',
AL > silly man.

G > Then what are you arguing about?

http://amasci.com/static/what_is_static.html

http://amasci.com/emotor/stmiscon.html#one

From: krw on
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:55:53 -0700, BlindBaby
<BlindMelonChitlin(a)wellnevergetthatonethealbumcover.org> wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:51:18 -0700 (PDT), Greegor <greegor47(a)gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>This "reverse lightning" might possibly
>>be of some value if you want to harmess
>>atmospheric static electricity.
>
> ALL lighting, and certainly any that you would end up capturing,
^^^^^^^^
Lighting? What a putz, DimBulb.

>regardless of what direction it was shot or where you caught it at, is
>'atmospheric static electricity', silly man.
From: Joerg on
John Larkin wrote:
> On 12 Jun 2010 07:16:54 -0700, Winfield Hill
> <Winfield_member(a)newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> My Maxwell capacitors hard at work energy from harnessing lightning, see my post
>> with photo, at the CR4 forum.
>>
>> http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/55751/Lightning-Arrestor#comment579837
>
>
> You rate 3 "good" answers out of 14. That site has very high
> standards!
>
> Why not use the lightning to heat water? The impedance match is
> potentially better, and it's easy to store hot water. We could throw a
> neighborhood hot-tub party after every strike, every 40 years or so.
>
> We don't get lightning here. I kind of miss it.
>

I don't miss it, seen to much electronics come to grief from it. Hey,
why don't engineers at RF module manufacturers get it into their heads
that the first part after the antenna jack has got to be an inductor to
ground? Anything else will eventually go *PHUT*.

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From: Michael A. Terrell on

Joerg wrote:
>
> John Larkin wrote:
> > On 12 Jun 2010 07:16:54 -0700, Winfield Hill
> > <Winfield_member(a)newsguy.com> wrote:
> >
> >> My Maxwell capacitors hard at work energy from harnessing lightning, see my post
> >> with photo, at the CR4 forum.
> >>
> >> http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/55751/Lightning-Arrestor#comment579837
> >
> >
> > You rate 3 "good" answers out of 14. That site has very high
> > standards!
> >
> > Why not use the lightning to heat water? The impedance match is
> > potentially better, and it's easy to store hot water. We could throw a
> > neighborhood hot-tub party after every strike, every 40 years or so.
> >
> > We don't get lightning here. I kind of miss it.
> >
>
> I don't miss it, seen to much electronics come to grief from it. Hey,
> why don't engineers at RF module manufacturers get it into their heads
> that the first part after the antenna jack has got to be an inductor to
> ground? Anything else will eventually go *PHUT*.


Yawn.


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