Peter VanDerWal wrote: > Please Lee, I expected better from you. > First I didn't say that you couldn't power things with static > electricity, I said you couldn't power a car that way.
I think you *could*; but I don't think it's ever been done. (Mad visions of a solar car with a kite flying on a wire in a thunderstorm :-) > Do you really think they have developed something that fits into a > little box and can gather 15-20 kilowatts worth of static electricity > on a continuous basis? No; I do not. However, it is (barely) possible to build a 15-20kw generator in the size package they claim. But of course, it needs some form of energy input --the source of which they are not revealing. > Secondly your friend's antenna setup is most likely collecting EMF > energy from radio broadcasts (and lightning), not static electricity. No; he didn't rectify it; he just connected it to a big capacitor bank between ground and both antenna wires. "Sky current" is DC. Any large ungrounded structure will pick up such a current. The current is very low (microamps) but the voltage is very high -- limited mainly by how good your insulation is. > direct beamed energy this can't power an EV either, an array big > enough to collect any useable energy would cause more aero drag > than the energy it collected. Yup; I agree. > I won't even get into direct beamed energy. Though this may be what they're doing. Their energy box could be some kind of receiver that picks up beamed RF, light, magnetically coupled energy from a buried coil, etc. Look at it as an engineering challenge. List 10 things that might be in that "black box" that can deliver 15 kw for a couple hours. I said 10 because the first few are easy; fossil-fueled ICE generator, batteries, fuel cells, thermoelectric converter, etc. After these it starts to get hard. I would say anything involving electrostatics is VERY far down the list. -- Lee A. Hart Ring the bells that still can ring 814 8th Ave. N. Forget your perfect offering Sartell, MN 56377 USA There is a crack in everything leeahart_at_earthlink.net That's how the light gets in - Leonard Cohen
