Re: static electricity

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Jim Shaffer, Jr. ( (no email) )
Sat, 22 May 1999 23:13:19 -0400

> Note only the tips of the blade
>glow ! which almost points to a centrifugal effect like David Hamil quotes
>as occurring with his design

Not really. The tips have the greatest linear velocity. More to the point, if
I'm not mistaken, an electric field is strongest off a pointed surface.