On 9/17/05, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050916/od_nm/australia_electricity_dc

"We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and
measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of
spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited,"
fire official Henry Barton said.

Current doesn't come in volts.  It comes in amps.  It was that there
was so little current that saved the guy!  40,000 volts is a lot, but
only because of the possible current it could generate.  I would think
that a fire official would know that.

-todd


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