| IONIZATION from rotating components. In my previous career I was a Helicopter mechanic on Bell Helicopter products. I know from that experience that the Rotor blades turning through the air creates a static electrical charge that is released when the aircraft touches the earth. So I know that dynamic rotating components create this electrical IONIZATION effect. I wonder if the same effect happens to a distributor rotor? And if it does, how does the charge go away? Being that the tires insulate the car from the ground. Can this static electrical charge cause ill effects to our motor or components?
Just a random thought.
It's pretty scary, I have many more. I don't know how deep anyone would want to get in this old man's mind but here is another example of my weird thoughts:
Where does all the rubber from tires go? I know that tires do wear (lord knows I buy enough sets of them) but I also know that not all the rubber goes to the pavement. Look at the number of cars on the roads in Southern California. If all the rubber was going to the pavement, why aren't the roads 10 feet thick? If the rubber just turns into particles that blow off the road, why aren't there black rubber snow banks on each side of the road? Where does it go?
The top paragraph is technical content, the bottom one is just thought provoking from a strange mind.  |