On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:22:41 -0400, Phil Hobbs
wrote:

On 04/01/2017 11:12 AM, Tom Biasi wrote:
On 4/1/2017 10:32 AM, wrote:
Scientists have determined that ground is no longer at ground potential.
snip a bunch of junk
Reprinted from: The Electro Scientific Journal

This is what happens from abuse of drugs.
The earth now has an 8 volt potential in reference to what?

I think one of Feynman's lectures asks about what the electrostatic
potential of the Earth is.

The answer is that it's close to zero, since the Earth is immersed in a
conducting medium (the solar wind).

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Is the solar wind neutral? Spacecraft typically charge a bit negative.
Seems to me that the sun could be a giant thermionic cathode.

The electric field near the ground is big, around 150 volts/meter,
positive going up.

http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html


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