On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 1:18 AM, William Beaty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trouble is, the natural sky current is well under a microamp per square > meter. So a metallized kite would need to be a bit large in order to > collect only kilowatts. Better would be to artifically break down the air, > or inject a huge ion current: harnessed, low-level lightning discharges. What is the Vret path on this sky battery? Somehow the circuit must be closed. I assume the Vret goes to earth; but, is the circuit completed by evaporation with a charge on each water molecule? This would must impact world weather somehow! T
