🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1991Jan28.190057.1874@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>
> Van de Graff generator produces STATIC electricity. STATIC electricity is far
>less dangerous than conventional electricity, partly due to the very low
>currents that are present. The other is the fact that STATIC electricity
>tends to remain on the surface of an object as stored charges.

Also remember that the amount of charge that can be supplied by the source
is important. In a Van de Graff generator the amount of charge is fixed.
Thus the energy that can be delivered is limited by the amount of charge 
present on the ball. 

Your house on the other hand is connected to a 
distribution circuit. In power engineering this distribution circuit is
refered to as an infinite bus. This is because this circuit will continue
to deliver energy to your body at a rate related to the current until
the fuse blows.

Therefore it is really the amount of energy that flows through your body
that does the most damage.

since this is alt.sex

OBsex:

woman: What do you call your penis?
man: That's my High Voltage Probe.
woman: Energize me!


Mike
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"Just when I thought I knew all the answers in life,
 I found out that I was taking the wrong test." mrh 1990
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