One is the insulator must be converted into an electret,
and this electret must be covered with a conductor to capture ions.
I also read that companies go to great lengths to prevent insulation on wire from becoming electret in nature because it causes problems.
So I was thinking about those clothes line cables made of plastic coated steel wire. They aren't manufactured to prevent an electret, so they may work better. Then we only need to find a way of placing a conductive coating over the outside to collect electrons. Any ideas on how to do this?
Clothes lines are very cheap. Also one could connect a car battery to both ends of a clothes line and get the wire to get nice and hot. Then we just need to connect a 30kvolt source to the wire as it cools off. An old computer monitor will do fine as a 30kvolt source. We only need it for as long as it takes the wire to cool down again, and we're done with it.
Any other thoughts?
Till later HaroldStatistics: Posted by AbbaRue — Fri Jan 13, 2006 6:42 pm
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