This book provides new clues for understanding electrostatic charging in solids and liquids
resulting from the surge of research in this active area of science that is taking place since
the 1990's but is still largely unknown to most researchers lecturers and engineers. Written
by a leading researcher in this field this book describes the formation and properties of the
Earth capacitor the production of environmental electricity and its effect on natural and
anthropic systems and examines many situations in which water may play a decisive role in
electrostatic behavior.The authors present an informed critique of the long-held assumption
that pure substances should be electroneutral. In this regard the authors show that charge
partition and accumulation is expected considering the electrochemical potential under non-zero
electrostatic potential which prevails at Earth surface.This book provides conceptual tools to
guide the reader through the complexities and consequences of electrostatic phenomena while
covering exciting current topics such as energy scavenging from the environment electrostatic
based green production energy-saving processes electrochemistry at the solid-gas interface
therapeutic electrostatic treatments applications in sanitation and pest control and control
of atmospheric electricity and its use in climate engineering.
