Can electricity flow through air w/out sparking?

"Radium" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com:

The problem is not that your posts seem redundant, the problem is that your questions are inane.

"Breaking through the resistance of the air" IS ionizing the air. In short, if there's a gas in between two points, a "flow" of current/electrons between those points is going to break that gas down. The only way to avoid that is to not have any gas in the way - why do you think those glowing glass things we used to use were called "VACUUM tubes"?

PLEASE learn something about the fundamentals before you ask any more questions like this.

Bob M.

Sorry. Ionization causes the ionized object have a number of electrons different from the object's native state. I thought electrons could flow through a substance that is otherwise-resistant w/out causing chemical changes [e.g. ionization] to the substance.

My bad.

Bob, he's a troll, he just asks stupid questions to get a rise out of us. The best thing to do is killfile him, or at least ignore his posts. If you do, hopefully, he'll go away. :-)

"Mike Rieves" wrote in news:TnMEg.61162$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews5.bellsouth.net:

There's a swine mimicking a parrot in the room.

You haven't got the concept of electomagnetism yet have you ?

DC won't do that but you can sure get AC power through the air.

Graham

What you think is a waste of Usenet bandwidth.

Graham

"Radium" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com:

If you want the troll to say, just keep feeding him.

On 16 Aug 2006 13:09:14 -0700, in message , "Radium" scribed:

No! No! NO!! Radio and TV transmission is impossible! Garage door openers are a fire hazard and forbidden by law! Microwave power transmission is a taboo fantasy, the engagement in subjecting the practioner thereof to imprisonment in the most dire mental institutions! FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE STOP NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE! DAMN IT MAN, THINK OF THE *CHILDREN*!!

Define flow.

Movement of electrons in a current?

Why can't DC flow through air? Static from touching a TV screen is an example of DC electricity moving through air.

Alan, what you are referring to is electromagnetic radiation, not electricity. The two are different from each other.

Define movement

On 16 Aug 2006 18:19:48 -0700, in message , "Radium" scribed:

Do tell? I'm dying to hear this!

On 16 Aug 2006 18:18:54 -0700, in message , "Radium" scribed:

No, it isn't.

Why don't you go learn ? Then you wouldn't have to keep asking stupid questions. Are you simply lazy or just stupid ?

No it isn't.

Graham

Bwahahahahaha !

LMAO ! Nice move.