Re: useless info.

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPomona.Edu>]

>  The recent posting listing the capacitance of the earth at 600 microF
> reminds me that the capacitance of an isolated person, several meters
> above the earth is about 50 microF.

Hmmm.  This looks about 6 orders of magnitude too high to me.  Seems
like you'd have to get within a few to a few ten's of nm from the surface
to make the capacitance this large.  Where does this figure come from?

John
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