Solid State fan for cooling in tight spaces

Ok, a co-worker pointed this out to me, its pretty neat. Using the corona effect to create a fan. I wonder when we'll see the Dyson version :-)

Wow, a solid-state fan is not something I ever expected to see! (About as expected, in my mind, as gears with no moving parts.) But, pretty neat.

> Within the intense electric field that results, ions push neutral air molecules from the wire to the plate, generating a wind.

It sounds like the same technology as those those Sharper Image Ionic Breeze air cleaners, and from around the same time period.

It's a press release from 2008. I don't quite see why it appears here now.