I often perform in science centers and when I can, I get a hold of a Van de Graff generator.
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Personally, I'd be tempted to build a Van de Graff generator, but that can be stupidly dangerous if handled badly.
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By sixth grade, I'd built a Van de Graff generator and a Tesla coil and was routinely in jeopardy of sudden death by electrocution!
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You may, in high school, have done the experiment where you stand on something insulated and then touch a Van de Graff generator, and your hair stands on end.
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It's a pretty popular high school science experiment ( or it was in my day ) to get someone to stand on an insulating object and charge them up with a Van de Graff generator.
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:How do you know when your body has reached the limit of capacitance when you are charged with Van de Graff generator .-- Captain ginyu 21 : 11, 24 June 2006 ( UTC)
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:: The Van de Graff generator approach would make the hairs try to stand on end-that's because static electricity likes to collect at sharp edges and points-and the tip of a hair is pretty pointy.
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When you are charged with Van de Graff generator, for how long can you keep that charge, and can you manifest it somehow ( like give people a shock like with static electricity or something like that ), and 2 . for TenOfAllTrades, what mechanical means of increasing capacitance were you thinking of.
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It would be relatively simple to design and build a Capacitor Man superhero suit, as long as you weren't intimately wedded to skintight spandex . ( There's no magic bullet here . ) I'll note in reply to Keenan Pepper's remark that you'll hold a kilovoltage charge for a fair while in dry air, but a megavoltage charge ( such that you might get from a Van de Graff generator ) will tend to very quickly bleed down even in dry air . talk ) 16 : 22, 24 June 2006 ( UTC)
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