On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Michel Jullian <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/6/17 John Berry <[email protected]>: > > An additional thought. > > > > I believe that one issue would be that such an experiment might well > become > > "deficient" of the charge that is applied to the plasma. > > Why should it? Charge is conserved Indeed, but not necessarily all in the device any more than it would be in a VDG. (an ungrounded VDG would stop working, same here, both distribute charges to the environment) > , removal of its support (the > plasma) won't make it disappear. It will probably drop towards the > other armature Other armature? I am talking about a solid state tube and plate arrangement just so we are clear, maybe I am unclear on all definitions of this word?

