<div>Hi Keith.</div>
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<div>Manipulating the ubiquitous atmospheric-earth charge/s isn't answering my</div>
<div>question regarding wether or not the earth's putative negative charge can exert a force </div>
<div>on the zero net charge on a bimetal couple, or a battery or</div>
<div>a supercapacitor.</div>
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<div>The contact of metal;A with metal B of a higher work function results</div>
<div>metat A becoming positively charged Qa and metal B equally negatively charged</div>
<div>to Qb.</div>
<div>Like isolated highly charged plate capacitors that require many kilovolts</div>
<div>to get comparable charge they are in effect electric dipoles.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I think it was a nasa report that said that isolated high-field electric dipoles</div>
<div>can interact with the ground??</div>
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<div>Perhaps I should connect rigid wires to the aluminum foil, and pennies to</div>
<div>form a dipole "antenna"??</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Fred</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Nagel</b> <<a href="mailto:NewCandleAdmin@ipdiscover.com">NewCandleAdmin@ipdiscover.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I put the scale on a 9V battery, and went into the<br>kitchen for the cold water pipe. I used a thin strip
<br>of aluminum foil to get from the metal pan to the<br>tabletop, and then from there a wire to the pipe.<br><br>Taking the Teflon slab in hand I grabbed the cat and powered<br>up. There was crackling, and the cat donated a few
<br>more of his infinite supply of electrons. He's<br>really good at this, so it seems.<br><br>With the pan grounded ( either to the table top or<br>cold water pipe, made no difference ) I measured no<br>weight difference between the Teflon charged or
<br>uncharged to .1 grams. The slab is 116 grams.<br><br>With the pan free to float electrically, I would<br>see a ~1 gram increase in weight due to charging.<br>Over time that would drop as the uncompensated charges<br>on the Teflon were slowly neutralized.
<br><br>My question to Fred is, why don't I see a repulsion<br>from the grounded pan?<br><br>K.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NewCandle mailing list<br><a href="mailto:NewCandle@ipdiscover.com">
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