I hope they give then to a charity/charitable person. I proposed to continue the service ad free, for free to them. Hopefully they accept my proposal. It would be such a shame for the service to become "enshittified" by some greedy company
It's always interesting when this is brought up, because private flights emissions are literally nothing compared to the transport industry emissions. They might as well be zero. Introduction of AdBlue has been one of the greatest improvements in diesel emissions that we have done - calling it "peddling by brussels" is uninformed at best and actively malicious at worst.
This has nothing to do with CO2 emissions and everything to do with particle pollution.
Our leaders do not live inside urban centers, and do not suffer from particle pollution. Or at least way less than the average citizen, and i'm not even talking about the people living near the Paris ring road, who aren't exactly the richest.
I understand if you're from the countryside (i am too) that you dislike adBlue, but think that it probably add years of living to the poorest urbanites.
But the argument that you shouldn't be using AdBlue in your diesel because rich people fly private jets is frankly, crazy. Both things should be addressed, but one of those things is far more important to tackle right now for the health of everyone.
I'm sorry, but I don't believe one bit of your story.
Ohm's law dictates that it's be impossible for your HV generator (neon transformer) to outpout a HV voltage when connected to the grid (you'd need thousands of kWs).
Feel free to contact Riny Assink who was my boss / co-founder at the time for corroboration, I'm pretty sure he will remember because (1) it was a pretty memorable occasion in its own right, (2) the neon installation was intended to be used on a trade show the next day and my action meant we did not get to use one of our nicer eye catchers which really pissed him off, (3) he built the stuff that I blew up in the weeks leading up to the event, which pissed him off even more. I'm sure a bit of googling will turn up contact info for him.
As for Ohm's law, when dealing with large transformers made for 50Hz dumping the full charge of a (pretty beefy) HV power supply into the low end of a circuit looks roughly like a lightning strike would, only with a much lower amount of Joules behind it. So it's not so much Ohm's law but Maxwell. Chances are some protection circuitry said 'better safe than sorry' and disconnected.
FWIW when you receive a bit of data that contradicts your knowledge and assumptions in general the more interesting bits of knowledge are found by asking how things could have happened rather than to disbelieve a priori the facts as presented by eye witnesses. I have fuck all to gain from relating this story, and would happily stake my reputation on it being 100% the truth without any embellishment whatsoever. The whole reason I told it is because the person I replied to made roughly the same claim that you did.
I agree that it should not be possible, and yet it happened.
I hope they give then to a charity/charitable person. I proposed to continue the service ad free, for free to them. Hopefully they accept my proposal. It would be such a shame for the service to become "enshittified" by some greedy company