Re: Error in Wikipedia article: Faraday's law of induction

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:42:08 +0200 "Szczepan Bia?ek" <sz.bialek@xxxxx> wrote:
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|> Another thing I have been wondering about is treating the Earth as a
|> OPFHG. While there are not conductors as we think of them extending
|> outward from the Earth, there actually are some, as well as a stream
|> of particles. So I wonder how much of this is charge from the Earth
|> rotating in its own magnetic field. There are some strange things like
|> "lightning sprites" emerging from the tops of storm clouds, suggesting
|> electrical fields extending much higher.
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| Storm clouds are high voltage generators (Armstrong and Kelvin). As such
| they must send electrons in ALL directions.

How can a storm cloud generator a charge if it would send electrons in all
directions? Do these new charges emerge from some kind of singularity in
the middle of the cloud?

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