Man builds up 30,000 volts of static electricity

ABC online ^ | September 16, 2005

[rit]

Sorry... I should have realized we need positive news here.
Jokes about electrons should be banned, because they are so negative.

[ovrtaxt]

I was shocked. SHOCKED I tell you.

[geezerwheezer]

That's as bad as the power surge in England that wanted to go 'OHM!!!! :0)

[RGSpincich]

This guy should be grounded.

[Diddle E. Squat]

OK, fess up, which one of you was it?

[bobsatwork]

I'm not buying the man produced enough static electricity energy to burn holes "the size of 10-cent pieces". .....Nope. Don't buy this at all. Arcs don't just burn at one end. If he arced from his foot, through his shoe, to the carpet, he would have burned his foot, shoe, and carpet equally. Someone heard a spark, looked down, and saw an old cigarette burn in the carpet. Added 2 + 2, and came up with 30,000.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Quick Shot]

Just picture a lap dances surprise....

[Colorado Doug]

you should be permanently banned for that.

Yes, Rit should be PUNished

[savedbygrace]

The real danger of the '70s - disco & polyester together in one place

[Our man in washington]

My understanding from college physics was that it took about 30,000 volts to break down air to the point one could see a visible spark. That would mean that anybody who rubbed their feet on carpet and touched a door handle had 30,000 volts. Thus, there's something I'm not getting here.

[metmom]

Yeah, no doubt the story IS a fraud, but it's such fun!

[TexasRepublic]

There are ways to rectify that situation.

[RightWhale]

When we first started getting desktop computers it was great fun to shuffle our feet past the receptionist and then touch the metal of the partition. The computer would reboot. After a few days the receptionist ran out of things to say, and we tired of the amusement.

[Redcloak]

"Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is."

[Texas Songwriter]

I have, for years, read of spontaneous human combustion, long before the X-files. I wonder if this might be the etiology.

[Texas Songwriter]

Who is in charge?

[DB]

There has to be a source of the current.

The current available is only that stored in the capacitance of the insulated body to the environment around it. Very little capacitance, or ability to store enough energy to burn the carpet.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"you should be permanently banned for that."

Or at the least sent to the punatentiary.

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