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difference, you don't have to pull much energy out of the system before the potential difference goes away. It's like having a dam for hydro power with very little water.
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There are some videos about the kite thing which explains this in great detail. Until a large scale test has been performed, I'll assume that "your" invention has the same problem.
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I am still trying to rap my head around what makes it work. If atmospheric potential difference, then why do they get a result from 15cm. I thought triboelectric after watching vid…
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I have no idea. I don't even know what triboelectric is. I thought pointing to that other experiment strengthened my stance of "we still don't have enough data to know this is useful"
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As usual, I try to make up for lack of sufficient knowledge with an abundance of short lived and ill founded enthusiasm
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..but looking at paper indicates there are other effects too. Dunno
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Thou shalt not read papers. Thou shalt halfread a headline or two, then thy shalt present thy first impression as Absolute Truth and verbally attack everyone who do not submit to it.
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Amen