On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:50:28 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] >>On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:12:43 -0400: >>> Hi, >>> [snip] >>>>On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> For a current to flow, they have to have somewhere to go. >>>> >>>>A current limiting earth/moon tether with a period of oscillation of >>>>28 days. First half cycle the current flows to the moon. Second >>>>half, he current flows back. >>>> >>>>Care to calculate the power? :-) >>>> >>>>T >>> ..that depends on the charge stored on the planetary capacitors at each end. >>> Care to specify a value? >> >>Well, considering that the sun is the charging source, it would vary >>with the solar wind. The whole exercise is complicated by the fact >>that the earth is a spherical capacitor with the plates being the >>atmosphere and the earth itself. >> >>Maybe we could start with the moon's potential due to the solar wind alone? > > That's easy, 0. The solar wind is neutral.
Then how does the satellite work at the beginning of this thread? There must be far more electrons than protons. T
