Quantum treatment sheds fresh light on triboelectricity

Until now we did not even understand how the ancient well known phenomenon of electric charge generated by friction works! However, daily propaganda and demagoguery about Global Warming/Climate Change wants us to believe we could predict climate over the next 100 years! Global Warming is a hoax, an ideology, and a religion!

"Thanks to Alicki and his colleague Alejandro Jenkins of the Universidad de Costa Rica, the mystery surrounding triboelectricity (as the “charging by rubbing” effect is known) may be clearing up. According to Alicki and Jenkins, a major barrier to understanding triboelectricity is that physicists tend to view the phenomenon in terms of electrostatic potentials, even though “from a potential effect, you are never going to sustain a current that is going around a circuit,” Jenkins says. “It’s like the problem of perpetual motion.”"

Quantum treatment sheds fresh light on triboelectricity – Physics World