On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Mike wrote:
> Lee Ayrton wrote:
>> On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Charles Bishop wrote:
>>
>>> In article
>>> <6b033253-5778-44af-9957-a080d9ceca1e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Curse
>>> Of Millhaven <millhaven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You think he feels it? Like mini shocks or some sort of a charge or
>>>> does it feel the same way as getting pet without the electricity?
>>>
>>> There was a blurb on the radio today (NPR) about a woman in England(?)
who
>>> "has so much static electricity, she kills appliances." I missed any
>>> additional information but surely this can't be the case, can it? I
>>
>> I can't imagine that it is the case, unless she's opening up the cases
and
>> zapping microprocessors. According to this (maths are hard and over my
>> head): http://van.physics.uiuc.edu/qa/listing.php?id=6793
>>
>> The capacitance of the human body is around 100 pF to 200 pF. That's
not a
>> lot of energy. From the article posted downthread I suspect that she's
>> just hard on cords.
>
> The energy is (1/2)*C*(V^2), where V is the voltage. It's not unusual
for
> static voltages on humans to exceed 10,000V. Not enough energy to be
fatal,
> but more than enough voltage to produce a nice arc to an uncharged door
knob,
> and enough energy to make you feel it.
Quite so, but not enough energy to blow up the telly and blacken the wall.
High voltage is overrated in the public mind.
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