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Article quality

I copyedited out some of the article's most obvious deficiencies, but the overall quality is still not very good. The water capacitor seems to be a mostly a historical scientific curiosity and amateur experimental device. I think the topic is notable, but the article has a lot of content about capacitors in general, and not enough specific relevant coverage. Reify-tech (talk) 19:07, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed some of the more general stuff and linked instead to the main capacitor article. Water caps certainly are used, but are really a high voltage laboratory object, rather than a viable alternative to the sort of ceramic and polypropylene things in modern consumer electronics. For megavolts and nanofarads they are unbeaten - if you have the pumps, deionizers and all the rest of the support stuff you need, oh and don't mind it being bolted to the floor. Mike P-J. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.207.29.2 (talk) 08:28, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The hyperlink on the first reference takes you to a suspicious looking site: Egal,Hammer, Geoff, Spinner. "Water and Glass Capacitor". Reseah in Utilization of Free Energy Found in Nature. Geoff Egal. Retrieved 26 March 2013.