Talk:Electrostatic motor

Pictures
Sorry for being such an illiterate. But this article is in desperate need of some pictures. It is easy to see how the linear and rotory electrostatic motors work – though some mention of the possible dangers of high voltages would be worthwhile (perhaps). The article states that high voltages-low current works best for electrostatic motors, with low voltage-high current for electric motors. But, if one were considering the possible application of superconductors to this area, surely there are advantages to be gained via the use of such materials (even thin superconductors have the ability to transfer far larger amounts of power within such devices than would large quantities of even the most refined copper wires).

ConcernedScientist 23:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Power density
It is perhaps worth noting that the plausible power density of nanoscale electrostatic motors is on the order of 50-100kW per cm^3, but is there any evidence that the same is not true for electromagnetic motors? Anaholic 17:41, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Spam
A link to electojects.com has been repeatedly added to Stepper motor, Electric motor and Brushless DC electric motor by Special:Contributions/217.53.109.235, Special:Contributions/82.201.156.201, Special:Contributions/217.53.107.168, Special:Contributions/217.53.16.164, and others.

The link in question is registered to Abdoh Ali Mohamed, Hay Swesri, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.

I wonder if the four IP addresses listed above have any connection... Naw, couldn't be. Egypt is a big country. Must be a coincidence.

I'm going to start patrolling wikipedia for any links to electojects.com or redirects to it and deleting them on sight. If they come back, I'll move to blacklist the address. Mdsummermsw (talk) 18:18, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

See Talk:Stepper_motor. - Mdsummermsw (talk) 19:54, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Bigger applications?
There have been some reports about a project at University of Wisconsin Madison and a spin-off, where they say they have found ways to use it for bigger applications: Drives & Controls: "Electrostatic motor ‘out-performs standard designs’" Probably should not be included before they publish something reliable. Galant Khan (talk) 20:17, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

[Untitled]
Three categories of ESM are mentioned, but only two are covered. The basic, simple type is only mentioned in passing. 12.130.180.56 (talk) 15:17, 24 July 2015 (UTC)GTaylor