Power = Current times voltage. Current is charge over time. Almost zero charge at any voltage is almost no power.
If a single electron hits you at a couple million volts, you won't feel it. Charge doesn't come in volts, it comes in farads.
This whole thing about static is an excuse for bad quality construction. Static shocks haven't blown out chips since since the early 1970s when CMOS B was invented. Crooks like 3M use people's fears and ignorance to sell anti-static this and that. Any surprise that lawyers would pick up the racket?
It is easier for companies to use "anti-static bags" and other talsmans for the easily scared than to teach simple physics to the masses. But I'd expect better from those seeking "News for Nerds."
All those physics formulas you had to learn in your first electronics class apply in the real world too, not just way back in school.
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Power = Current times voltage. Current is charge over time. Almost zero charge at any voltage is almost no power.
If a single electron hits you at a couple million volts, you won't feel it. Charge doesn't come in volts, it comes in farads.
This whole thing about static is an excuse for bad quality construction. Static shocks haven't blown out chips since since the early 1970s when CMOS B was invented. Crooks like 3M use people's fears and ignorance to sell anti-static this and that. Any surprise that lawyers would pick up the racket?
It is easier for companies to use "anti-static bags" and other talsmans for the easily scared than to teach simple physics to the masses. But I'd expect better from those seeking "News for Nerds."
All those physics formulas you had to learn in your first electronics class apply in the real world too, not just way back in school.
Water will not fry your motherboard.
Except in the movies.