Electrostatic machine roughly 1 kilowatt per pound

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Norm,

Have a look at these patents, I think we are talking home power now via
electrostatics!


http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2194839.html

"The power which can be delivered by an electrostatic generating
apparatus of the type described may be illustrated by the following
example. If it is assumed that the rotor (as in Figs. 1 and 2) has ten
members of sixteen poles each with an external rotor diameter of 24
inches and a hub diameter of 6 inches and the separation between the
adjoining rotor and stator poles is 6 millimeters, and it is further
assumed that the rotor is rotated at a speed of 3600 revolutions per
minute, with a substantially constant output voltage E at 100,000 volts
and a constant inducing potential V at 100,000 volts impressed on the
rotor, then the electrical power output of such a machine would be about
20 kilowatts. It will be seen that, under these assumptions, a machine
of these physical characteristics possesses a power compactness
comparable with present electro-magnetic machines and makes available in
a single unit electrostatically generated direct current power of very
high voltage."


Variable capacitance electrostatic modification to above

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3107326.html