High voltage "Air threads"

http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/airthred.html Invisible filaments of high voltage "electric wind" are seen to disturb a thin fog layer made with warm water and dry ice. Get the HV power supply from http://amasci.com/emotor/negion.html Get dry ice from suppliers in your yellow pages. Some welding supply shops sell it. In Seattle, QFC markets sell it in their seafood section.

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[johnsdevid]

Can you place your hand between the paper and the dry ice and feel the "wind"?

[wbeaty]

@johnsdevid Nope, it's incredibly feeble. It's like trying to feel some cigarette smoke. But as your hand approaches, the hole in the fog will deflect as the charge on your body affects the stream. (Your body always has some small pos or neg charge except on very humid days.)

[plinnyful]

Safety third! Really enjoying your videos, especially the DISGUSTOSCOPE! You're a twisted man, but in the best of ways:) Thanks for making science fun. SCIENCE! Btw, ever been to a Burn? Like Burning Man? I think you'd enjoy it.

[wbeaty]

@plinnyful ?2007? I was the dry ice madman in Center House, in goggles and white labcoat, trying to put chunks of dry ice in people's coffee and water bottles.

[anbukakashi114]

where do you buy dry ice?

[wbeaty]

> buy dry ice?

Click on (more info) over near the yellow subscribe button?

[akademiker23]

dangerous stuff + high voltage = allways fun

[N3m3cis]

"It's electric wind, following the lines of the e-field" E-P-I-C !

[HorizonDelta]

Nice vid !

[Jhfgsjdcd]

Dude ur the ground

[kkrbloedhond]

im watching couple of his vids at the moment,, and they are really great!!

[MTd2]

My explanation: water is a polar molecule. By using a charged or chargeable object, like a piece of paper or a hand, water vapor is attracted and also aligns with the electric field. The pressure increases, due the higher density of water, and pushes air out of the more intense electric field. Given that CO2, that is, dry ice, is apolar, it gets pushed only by the air. The result it is tha the shape of the object is printed above the water surface, as a hole.

[seyoumeye]

If simple needles have such effects, just think about what is doing the Tower Eiffel in Paris...

[banishedfromthisarea]

Cloud formations - striations - are they electrically shaped?

[Kvnjnsn0]

Witchcraft

[asdafasful]

what you have in the coca cola's glass...??

[simepfc15]

debili

[crocop195]

OH NOO..i see a disaster