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Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:03:02 -0400
From: Wolfgang Rueckner <rueckner@fas.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: tap-l@listproc.appstate.edu
To: tap-l@listproc.appstate.edu
Subject: Re: electrostatic motor
>Here's a trio of observations.
>
>People who have used or built room air ionizers are familiar with the fact
>that either negative or positive ions can be generated by these devices and
>measured objectively.
>So the puzzle is essentially a non-puzzle.
Having just done the new experiment (positive flame is repelled by wire
regardless of the wire's polarity), the puzzle of why the whirlygig doesn't
change direction is answered. But now we have a new puzzle (question). Why
is the flame always repelled? Wolfgang