I know someone who is doing something remotely similar.

I was concerned about a friend of mine...unable to find him. Called his
web manager, but her husband answered. He was getting his concrete
pads in the ground so he could work on the towers over the winter. He
explained how it would work, and was pretty confident in the system as
he was sinking more than a few dollars into the project. It might be a
big waste of money for someone like me. I believe he will get it to produce
plenty of useable power. As a young man, he was on Dr. Teller's team.

The guys I work with think I have a high powered engineering mind (of course
I suspect a few of them may be low-brow mouth breathers*) but next to Stan
I feel like I'm an idiot.

-Rick

(*a tip o' the hat to David Letterman)_

Well, I didn't say it would not work. Rather, it wouldn't work well. There's two points that which bear evidence to that. The first one I already mentioned. If usable amounts of cheap, easy power could be gotten, you'd have people doing it. The second is the fact that you never see any documented output numbers from these experiments. Yes, they'll say it gives you a heck of a shock, it charges my batteries in 3 days, (how big a battery, and how discharged was it to begin with?) or it lights a neon bulb, (how big of a bulb?) but no one ever comes out and says, "My sky current generator puts "X" watts into my batteries when the wind blows at "X" MPH and humidity levels are "X" %." Why? I already said it. It's a neat experiment, but nothing more.

I'm not trying to knock it. I'd love nothing more than for something like this to work, but I have to be realistic.