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ESD Protection and Control Seminar: November 2010

China Pipeline Explosion: Possibly caused by static electricity during switch loading

Electrostatic Shocks, Fires and Explosion Avoidance

A Safety Message about CFL Bulbs

Take a Look: 3-D Electrostatic Animation

From NewScientist
Car Exhaust Fumes Cause Lightning Strikes

All Charged Up! Part 1 Electricity CoolStuff newsletter published by Arbor Scientific

ESD Control Program for Novice-Tips for ESD coordinators and for setting up ESD control programs in an organization

TRAVOLTA Means Charging

There Go the Servers-As Technology Spreads, Electrical Hits That Once Just Made the Lights Flicker- Now Fry Computers, Phone and Web Connections. From The Wall Street Journal Flicker

Exploding cell phone may have killed Korean Man

RFID Tags Interfere with Hospital Equipment and Raise Safety Concerns-Featured article from Medical News Today

Explosive Surgery? - The operating room is filled with fuel and ignition sourves. What is being done to prevent fires in the operating room. Check out this page that is filled with links to valuable information.

Crocs Fashion Clogs Possible Cause of Static Electricity in Swedish Hospital

Some ESD experts need to join this forum

Dell Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference

Tribocharging Studies on Inhabited Cleanroom Garments- John Chubb

Static Electricity can Play Havoc with Cochlear Implants

UPDATED! Cell Phone Explosion - Most recent: 19-year-old college student receives senond-degree burns from cell phone battery explosion

Telsa's 150th Birthday to be Celebrated - Scientist's native land of Croatia prepares for special event

Telsa Down under An Australian site detailing almost 200 high voltage and other projects

Breaking Through the Static: How to Find Information on the Safety of Your Cell Phone- Special report & investigation from NYC Council

Shock Horror Probe- the World of a Static Electricity Consultant - Dr. Jeremy Smallwood, Electrostatic Solutions

Study Finds: Cell Phone Radiation breaks Human and Animal DNA - By Stephen L. Fowler

Wearable Warnings! -Clothing that bites. Creating wearable technology and augmented sensations that serve as a visual and actual warning to others, not to stray too close.

Patient Dies from Burns Received in Nebraska Operating Room Fire

Danger: Operating Room Flash Fires

The Oxygenated Fuels Mandate- High vapor pressure plus ESD = fires- By Dr. Robert R. Swank, Jr.

Some Do Not View Electrostatics the Same as Others- Interesting but disturbing reading

Fibers Offer Electrostatic Control Solutions - By Dean Yarborough, Industry Manager, Shakespeare Conductive Fibers, LLC.

Testing of ESD Field Service Kits

Palm, Inc., Settlement Action

Test Method to Measure Surface Voltages Created on Tribocharging Inhabited Garments -New test method by John Chubb

Joseph Newman's New Announcement - Do you believe?

Four Killed in Illinois Plastic Plant Explosion

Blackberry and Static Make a Bad Pie - by Steve Fowler

Cell Phones and Electrical Safety Fact Sheet from SMOHIT - sheet metal orgainzation gets t right about static fires but misses the mark on cell phones

History of Digital Equipment Corporation - (word document)

A Shocking Kiss

IronAge Chip-Tec Makes the"MEG OHM" Shoe Possible

Conductive Film Demand

Electric Health - We run on electricity. So why not connect us up to an outlet?

Porcupine Helps with Static on Antennae

Static Shocks, and How to Avoid Them

Need to Know About ESD? - The "ESD Guide" is now on line...A guide to implementing the Technical Report IEC61340-5-1 & 2: Protection of electronic devices from electrostatic phenomena

Web Cleaing Choices - Combination static-neutralization, vacuum and contact-cleaning system removes particulates down to 1-micron size. By Jay Perry, Simco; reprinted with permission from Converting Magazine.

Need A Good Night's Sleep? - try using conductive fabrics and wrist straps- related links

ESD Prevention - People Grounding by Flooring System and Conductive Shoes

Cell Phone Lawsuit Dropped

Anthrax Spread Reduced by Static Charges

Airport Security May be Harmful to Your Computer!

Medtronic MiniMed has Static Electricity Concern with Their Pumps

NANO-AGE - Shaping the World Atom by Atom

Integrating ESD Detection in Semiconductor Equipment Controls - by Vladimir Kraz, Credence Technologies

How to Perform a Grounding Audit - by Patrick Gagnon of Texas Instruments

Terror from the Tabloids

Palm, Inc. Sued over ESD Problems
Shock in the Shower
More Archived "ESD Awareness"

Close up video of a Lightning Strike

Boeing 787 Withstands Lightning Strike

Man struck by lightning lives to tell his story

Lightning Strike Kills Texas Man, Injures Another; Lightning Deaths Rise to 10 in 2010

Lightning strike kills Georgia teen, injures another

Lightning suspected in fire at North Carolina 'tank farm'

17-year-old South Carolina Student killed by llightning

Wisconsin golfer killed by lightning

Georgia teen killed by lightning while riding bike

Maine plumber zapped by lightning

Maine man struck by lightning

Lightning kills three in Wisconsin

New Jersey matron of honor killed by lightning strike

Pennsylvania Man Struck by Ligntning Twice in 27 years

South Carolina Man Walking on Beach Killed by Lightning

Texas Pastor Killed by Lightning

12-Year-Old Girl Struck by Lightning

Three People Struck by Lightning in New Hampshire

Pennsylvania Man Killed by Direct Lightning Strike

Florida Man Struck by Lightning while using Cell Phone

New Jersey Teen in Critical Condition after Lightning Strike

Two New York Teenagers Struck by Lightning

Oklahoma Man Recovering from Lightning Strike

Lightning Kills Woman and 4 dogs

Lightning Probable Cause of Russian Airplane Crash

Lightning Kills WSouth Carolina Man Struck by Lightning Whitle Mowing Lawn

Two New Jersey Teens Killed by Lightning

Lightning Strike and Electrical Shock Survivor Stories

South Carolina Man Killed by LIghtning

Florida Man Waiting for Train to Pass Struck by Lightning

Experts Divided on What Attracts Lightning

More "Lightning" Archives

WATCH: Dust Hazards During the Winter- Safety Message from the US Chemical Safety Board

Electric Fields Kill Tumors

NYC unplugs Edison's direct current service

Telsa Theory Finally a Reality - Technology developed that gives you all the battery juice you need directly from the air.

It's the thinnest material ever and could revolutionize computers and medicine

Happy Birthday! Ben- January 17, 2006 marks the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's greatest scientists and inventors.

Fuel's Paradise? Power Source that Turns Physics on its Head

Northern Lights: - Skywatchers have their eyes on the best show in over 15 years!

John Chubb Defines ESD Instrument Calibration

Aurora Borealis Websites- Learn more about the Northern Lights and enjoy the great images

Lipoatrophia Semicircularis: - a new office condition which may be related to EMI/ESD

Recent Study Suggests Cell Phone Users at Risk for Tumor

Ride Through Chernobyl - join the author "Elena" as she travels on her motocylce to Chernobyl, home of the world's worse nuclear accident

Scotland Yard Installs Superman Vision-OOOS! - by Steve Fowler

Free Energy? - You decide... but send us your comments

Fake Batteries Causing Cell Phone Explosions

Comments on Preparation of "Standards" in Electrostatics
by John Chubb

Grounding the Human Body to Earth Reduces Chronic Inflammation and Related Chronic Pain by A. Clinton Ober

Electrostaic Discharge (ESD) Where are We Heading? part II by Steve Voldman

Electrostaic Discharge (ESD) Where are We Heading? part I by Steve Voldman

Metal-In Vs Metal-Out Bags

Clamshell Packages - "Who Said Air Gaps Don’t Shield Against ESD Events?"

Study Shows Ben Franklin was Wrong About the Lightning Rod

"ESD Research" Archives
Human Interest

Air Wells, Fog Fences & Dew Ponds- Not related to electrostatics but may be of interest to our readers

Vietnam's "Electric Man" Dies from Shock

Static Electricity in Man's Jacket Leads to Burns - Believe it or not! (word doc.)

Drunken Birds Slam into Glass Walls

Eletrocution!-16,000 volts, photos

Tech Job Cuts Down in 2002 - CGC said telecommunications firms paced the layoffs last year, making up more than half the total by shedding some 268,000 jobs.

Laptop "Hot Sync's" Scientist's Manhood

Tech Companies Pushed to Make More Cuts

The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
to Open Next Summer in South Dakota

China Air Flight 611- Another TWA 800? Static?

Will Whole Body Scanners Damage Electronics in Our Pockets? (1MB) by William J. Baukus of AS&E

More "Human Interest" Archives
Products of Interest

"New Use for Shielding Bags"- millions could make use of this technology-take a look at the AFDB website-make your own aluminum foil deflector beanie!!!

Adidas Introduces Computerized "Smart Shoe"

Shocking New Jacket Hits Street - a new anti-assault device for women wards off potential assailants with an 80,000-volt electric shock

Electrostatic Fly Trap - using electrostatic powder technology and pheromone attractants to capture flies and moths

Lab-on-a-Chip

TEFLON® Clothes May Be An ESD Problem

The DOW and ESD, Where Will They Be?

Relieve Your Tension with an ESD Mattress

Revisited:
Grounding The Human Body To Neutralize Bio-Electrical Stress From Static Electricity And EMF'S

Smart Clothes are Coming of Age- new frontiers for ESD Control

Hexyl-PVP Kills Germs, Bacteria on Contact

 

More Archived "Products of Interest"