At 09:04 am 05/05/2006 -0700, you wrote: > Why would a water-based capacitor store a large > enough charge such that a real "aether breakdown" > results? > > Capacitor > Material Relative permittivity (dielectric > constant) > ===================================== > Vacuum------------- 1.0000 > Air ---------------- 1.0006 > Teflon -------------- 2.0 > Transformer oil ------ 4 > Glass or Mica --------- 6 > Alumina ------------- 9 > Distilled water-------- 80.0 > > IOW distilled water is a factor of about 10 above a > normal ceramic. When this water is structured as > micro-bubbles - a huge low voltage charge can be > stored naturally. Obviously, a version of this > methodology may precede normal lightning in nature. > > Why might the rapid breakdown of such a (large stored) > charge result in "jerk" rather than normal > acceleration? (at least for a few degrees of rotation > in an ICE)
That's fascinating info Jones. I certainly never realised that water had such a high permittivity. Frank
