So the tech (or the person writing this up) mixed up "static" and "flea power"[1].
I believe the idea of "draining charge that shouldn't be there" has been properly conveyed nevertheless.
I believe the idea of "draining charge that shouldn't be there" has been properly conveyed nevertheless.
The description of this "flea power" reads like some cargo cult narrative that summarily conflates a handful of disjoint electrical characteristics/phenomena. It's like the modus operandi of interwebs consumerism.
Looks like there's no standard term that everyone uses; I'd say it's entirely forgivable that the tech called it "static" for lack of a better word.
I submit that a definition of static electricity as "charge at rest at non-ground potential" is so broad as to exist in any non-trivial circuit and many trivial circuits. Such a definition is therefore less useful than more common notion as electricity generated as a result of physical surface interactions of dissimilar materials.
Calling it "static electricity" is likely to cause reasonably intelligent and well-educated people to conclude it's related to wearing wool socks in Winter while being insufficiently grounded, as opposed to charge being there as a result of normal circuit operation.