Re: mist maker

[Chuck Britton <cvbritton@TELOCITY.COM>]

At 9:46 AM -0400 5/17/00, John Denker wrote:


> At 09:00 AM 5/17/00 -0400, Wolfgang Rueckner wrote:
>  >Using 150 V/m for the E-field at the surface of the Earth and Gauss' law, I
>  >calculate an electron density of about 10^-9 per sq m on the surface of the
>  >Earth.  That doesn't seem like much of a source for an ion generator.  Did
>  >I miss something fundamental here?
>
> Your skepticism is well placed;  you didn't miss anything.  The post to
> which you refer is mistaken.

Those of us who labor under the impression that one electron carries
only 1.6 E -10 coulombs of charge get a rather larger value of sigma
when it is expressed in electrons / meter^2.

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