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Re: Well I thought Lightning was just a form of Static Charges!

Posted by Steve Eddy on August 6, 2003 at 00:57:47:
That was what I was getting at also. If the charges are formed like they during a lightning strike where + and - charges collide to create lightning.
Lightning is basically a DIScharging event not a charging event. Charges build up prior to the strike and then are equalized after the strike.
It is a offshoot type of theory ,but it might be along those lines. How this could be measured is anyones guess.
Static meters are readily available. They ain't exactly cheap, but they're readily available. :)
There must be a forming of some sort of prticle transfer to interfer in the wires ability just be nuetral from unwanted charges.Like a magnetic interference.
Magnetic interference won't produce a static charge. For something to acquire a static charge, it needs to either strip electrons from something else (giving it a negative static charge) or have something else strip electrons from it (giving it a positive static charge).
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