Static Electricity Ownz

Post by **JS Lemming** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:26 pm

I love static electricity, I always have. I spent a lot of time building capacitors of all types, trying to make the smallest with highest capacity. I made a crank generator once but it didn't work as good as it should have (faulty material is guess). I found that a big batta ballon and a woolish duster works best for generating a tun o'static in a short time.

I just recently thought of an idea for a compressed capicitor but haven't made it yet. Do any of you guys like to tinker with static kooness?

OH, and static electricy has a very good use. You know how traditional electric motors are very heavy do to the mass amounts of copper wiring, well static motors can be made mostly by platic and light conducting metals. Perfect for space travel and such because it is a tun lighter to lift out of the Earth's gravity.

Don Pwnious · Post by **Don Pwnious** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:04 pm

Do any of you guys like to tinker with static kooness?

yo yo i do, it really cool. I think the newly dried clothes work greatly.

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:35 pm

JS Lemming wrote:well static motors can be made mostly by platic and light conducting metals. Perfect for space travel and such....

Now just figure out why they haven't made one for cars yet (since I dunno what they use in a shuttle). I figure something about it is difficult or they'd be in cars by now.

Post by **JS Lemming** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 4:24 pm

Now just figure out why they haven't made one for cars yet (since I dunno what they use in a shuttle). I figure something about it is difficult or they'd be in cars by now.

I don't think there is such a thing as a static battery, sure a capicitor would work for a while, but it would drain faster then car batteries.

Post by **MarauderIIC** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 7:17 pm

But couldn't you use a normal battery to do something (smaller than a normal car engine) to generate static? Or would it not be possible to generate enough?

Don Pwnious · Post by **Don Pwnious** » Fri Sep 10, 2004 8:42 pm

I'd like to introduce you to a dead person who probably knows some stuff:

Micheal Faraday wrote:Using old bottles and lumber, he made a crude electrostatic generator and did simple experiments. He also built a weak voltaic pile with which he performed experiments in electrochemistry.

Capacitors are devices that store electric energy in the form of an electric field generated in the space between two separated, oppositely charged electrodes. Their capacity to store energy makes them essential components in many electric circuits, and that capacity can be greatly increased by inserting a solid dielectric material into the space separating the electrodes. Dielectrics are materials that are poor conductors of electricity. The nonconducting properties of ceramics are well known, and some ceramics are made into extremely effective dielectrics. Indeed, more than 90 percent of all capacitors are produced with ceramic materials serving as the dielectric.

Post by **JS Lemming** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:09 pm

The thing is, we currently don't know how to chemicaly generate static like a battery. Also, with traditonal static capacitors, when the electricty is released, it all goes at once in a violent blast. We need a way to moderate that. Say your car fails to start the first time with a static type deal, then you would have to regenerate the static to try again, which currently takes moving parts. Yeah static is definatly powerful enough (remembers when I chained a bunch o'capacitors together, charged, and then accidently touched a hot wire..... ouch.)