Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:17316 alt.sex:24486 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu!hauser From: hauser@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (michael robert hauser) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,alt.sex Subject: Re: HELP! Message-ID: <87757@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 29 Jan 91 02:32:18 GMT References: <1991Jan19.052458.7449@wam.umd.edu> <1991Jan26.041208.25354@athena.cs.uga.edu> <2011@fornax.UUCP> <1991Jan26.162913.1905@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jan28.190057.1874@sj.ate.slb.com> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: michael robert hauser Followup-To: sci.electronics Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 36 In article <1991Jan28.190057.1874@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes: > > Van de Graff generator produces STATIC electricity. STATIC electricity is far >less dangerous than conventional electricity, partly due to the very low >currents that are present. The other is the fact that STATIC electricity >tends to remain on the surface of an object as stored charges. Also remember that the amount of charge that can be supplied by the source is important. In a Van de Graff generator the amount of charge is fixed. Thus the energy that can be delivered is limited by the amount of charge present on the ball. Your house on the other hand is connected to a distribution circuit. In power engineering this distribution circuit is refered to as an infinite bus. This is because this circuit will continue to deliver energy to your body at a rate related to the current until the fuse blows. Therefore it is really the amount of energy that flows through your body that does the most damage. since this is alt.sex OBsex: woman: What do you call your penis? man: That's my High Voltage Probe. woman: Energize me! Mike -- "Just when I thought I knew all the answers in life, I found out that I was taking the wrong test." mrh 1990 email: hauser@cis.ohio-st.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------