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Originally Posted by Turtle
 That's what they pay me for. 
Other than having just a little bit of juice available, though I agree you could store it in a capacitor to trickle charge a battery, there is the matter of the dry weather conditions necessary to create the static in the first place. It seems to me this is an infrequent occurance and investing in equipment to harness the static is not worth the gain.
Do you have a multi-meter and any little capacitors around?
To get this clear in my mind, if you were to charge a capacitor with static electricity from your body, would you have to be connected to it while you're rubbing up a charge, or only after you're charged? Would one side of the capacitor need to be grounded while charging it?  |
Well, I am getting ridiculously large shocks every few minutes around my house. It is naturally dry in Virginia during the winter so I would have a whole season to charge things. No multi-meter or capacitors around.
