Raindrops creating electricity?

[Commander Kinsey]

It doesn't take an hour to get tools out.

Isn't your skin waterproof?

The darker ones tend to burst.

[Commander Kinsey]

When I said 10 times cheaper, what did you think was the cost? That's right, the batteries and panels. They pay for themselves in a year or two.

Isn't there power at racetracks?

[Commander Kinsey]

I was thinking capacitance. Charging the lines up and nothing gets out the other end before the next half cycle.

[Commander Kinsey]

Because I haven't moved house yet, to somewhere with a lot more space. And I can't be bothered setting something up only to move it.

If I ignored those it would be infinity times cheaper. Clearly I've accounted for those costs to get a finite value.

[Commander Kinsey]

What made you think I hadn't?

[Commander Kinsey]

That's too much like real sound. What am I hearing in that clip?

[John Larkin]

It's literally a transmission line, with capacitance and inductance and some propagation velocity; lossless so far. The real problem is losses, namely series and shunt (mostly corona) equivalent resistance. AC has higher peak voltage (more corona losses per watt transmitted) and skin loss.

[John Larkin]

Just string a modest long-wire antenna and run it through a hi-z input audio amp and listen to the world.

One round-the-world sound is

BEEEOOOooooo that lasts several seconds. And lots of chirps and pops.

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Tue, 04 Jul 2023 00:59:11 +0100) it happened "Commander Kinsey" [e-mail] wrote in <op.17i58xfwmvhs6z@ryzen>:

Yes, but electric grass mower, electric hedge cutter, electric weed burner very long extention cables, 230 V 50 Hz AC here, I have learned to avoid using it in rain, and want to keep it in one piece too.

[Joe]

And the jump from real to the first forecast is always so dramatically different that you can see why the forecasting of rain is very poor.

I moved to this one:

[John Larkin]

Grass involves a lot of annoying labor, and you can't even eat it.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Am 04/07/2023 um 13:18 schrieb John Larkin:

I missed the 1st part of this thread, but back in the 1990s and 80s, when I still lived in Italy (happy days!) I built a few negative ion generators, made up of tens of capacitors and diodes.

Long story short, I used to put my multimeter couple of inches next to the needle where the ions come from, and I used to get some mV and mA of current.

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Tue, 04 Jul 2023 06:18:47 -0700) it happened John Larkin [e-mail] wrote in [e-mail]:

OK, but it is good to get out and get some excercise. You can it on it in summer in the sun with some nice food. Have some nice garden chairs too.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Sure, but what else am I going to do with 2 acres of clay? Admittedly, my "grass" is "whatever grows there, including lots of weeds and wildflowers". If I didn't mow, I'd have a hellscape of thistles and black walnut (and be up to my ass in squirrels).

Sun? You mean that harsh yellow thing in the sky that induces me to wear long sleeves while I'm mowing the lawn, even in 90 F weather?

On the patio. In the shade.

[John Larkin]

We see that thing here once in a while. It looks dangerous to me.

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:29:45 GMT) it happened Cindy Hamilton [e-mail] wrote in <ZNXoM.22560$ [e-mail]:

Oh I dunno, lived in Florida with just a Tshirt, on the Canadian border with just jeans, down under with just a Tshirt in the wild and survived once at -40 C here with just jeans.. I did get some sunburn on my shoulders once in Florida.. I do remember sitting in the sun on the grass in some park in London feeding the swans... Yesterday I went biking and some shopping, nice in the sun but a bit windy, today it is storm and rain here. I have a big umbrella I can set up if sun was to get too much in the garden here. I can lay out my flexible solar panels on the grass if power fails... that yellow thing in the sky then will charge my batteries...

I remember as kid falling though the ice (hardly any here in winter with warming these days) and crawling out and walking with boots full of water home...

Seem to have good body temperature control....

Typical, I once bought a winter coat, expensive, never did wear it, gave it away to an eartling I know, he asked 'you never wear that coat can I have it?'.

[Vir Campestris]

I looked at half a dozen weather models last night (on windguru.cz) as I intend to go sailing this evening.

The consensus, with little variation, as about 5mm of rain in the evening.

It rained most of the night, and we had about 15mm. As reported by professional quality raingauges, such as the one at

Andy

[Ed P]

Did you ever get locked up for not having either pants or a top on? Most of us wear both at the same time.

[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Wed, 5 Jul 2023 09:01:40 -0400) it happened Ed P [e-mail] wrote in <UQdpM.39985$N3 [e-mail]:

I am still locked up of course on planet earth. And today even more because a storm warning code red... Some women died when a tree fell on her car... No trains, some roads closed because of fallen trees, worst is now past and code orange now even removed. Sure I was wearing jeans too, but that is all. What is good is that my motorized satellite dish <checks) is still aligned so I can see the misery and fun of your planet.

[Commander Kinsey]

I had a few as a kid, commercial mini ones meant to get rid of dust, you could feel what appeared to be a light breeze if you put your hand in front. Not sure why.