Re: Water Pig

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Most likey it is, just very high resistance, PS, even a few mm of 
dielectric will throw your capasatance WAYYYYY down, you'll want as thin as 
possable dielectric for your voltage for the highest capasatance


>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Water Pig
>Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 12:19:40 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>
>
>At 19:07 10/05/03 -0600, you wrote:
>>Original poster: "Harvey Norris by way of Terry Fritz 
>><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <harvich-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>>
>>
>>I use a wallmart poly water pitchure surrounded by
>>aluminum foil, and a center 2.5 inch copper pipe as
>>the inner axial capacity, for a practical water
>>capacitor. The poly barrier prevents all these
>>objections about the water being conductive stuff.
>
>You'll probably find that the system is behaving just like a saltwater 
>bottle cap. I.e. the water and copper pipe work together as the inner 
>electrode, the poly container is the dielectric, and the foil is the outer 
>electrode. I doubt the water is doing anything dielectric at all. Of 
>course, you could prove me wrong, if you added salt and the capacitance 
>increased drastically ;)
>
>Steve C.