Topic “electro static discharge”
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2008-02-02
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Steam battery - breath power calculator
[…] (or perhaps not so brief) account of how I discovered the "Steam Battery." Essentially, this is an arrangement that produces a voltage across a sample of black ESD (Electro Static Discharge) foam when human breath is applied to one side of it. After I gave my account, I began thinking about well-documented effects that behave similarly to the steam battery. The most prominent is the "hot-point-probe" effect I suggested previously in the "Backscatter" column, in which a p-type or n-type […] read