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thetuxcat
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Power in Space From Static?

01/26/2013 7:58 PM

why wouldn't it be possible to collect static electricity and amplify it to use for powering spacecraft?
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Re: power in space from static?

01/26/2013 8:15 PM

There is no static electricity in space.
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Re: power in space from static?

01/26/2013 11:04 PM

Why must you be so cruel wrong?

http://www.universetoday.com/10830/static-electricity-in-space/

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Re: power in space from static?

01/27/2013 9:15 AM

My reply was in direct response to the question of gathering static electricity from SPACE, not the surface of a planet.

In true space, there just aren't many particles to bump against each other.

Let's let the OP decide who's right.
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Re: power in space from static?

01/26/2013 9:43 PM

On the upside I found you a good avatar....

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Re: power in space from static?

01/26/2013 9:58 PM

Use magnetism. 'The nation that controls magnetism, controls the universe."

-From an old Dick Tracy comic strip.

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Re: Power in Space From Static?

02/12/2013 3:11 PM

Aerospace

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