On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Reginald Neale wrote:

> Yeah, that's my opinion too. Seems to me that with common MAGNETIC field
> generators, there can be real-world amounts of power to play with. Common
> ELECTROSTATIC generators, no. Of course, there could be bleeding-edge
> breakthroughs here that I don't know about.
>
> And, as always, marketing can work miracles....

For a small immediate miracle, attach a large piezo to a rim mount (can be
a medical locking tweezer) and ping it with 1 finger's nail, 1st time
unconnected, then again shorted. Do this in a quiet room. Tell me what
happens.

Peter