Water vapour speaker?

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We all know the water bending experiment with a charged comb. Does steam behave this way? How about charging some steam and passing it over some kind of conductor with the opposite charge modulated with a signal?
I could write more but I think the mechanics of such a thing are fairly obvious

Anyone ever tried this?
 
Steam powered speakers

Bigwill,
What sort of steam did you have in mind Dry or Wet ?
Wouldn't wet steam be rather a problem especially in a humid climate ? And dry steam is just downright lethal, we use 350 deg dry steam @ 700psi.
Perhaps modulating a high pressure feed would be the answer, we could use the steam to move a small piston connected to a loudspeaker diaphragm :clown:
 
What I had in mind was small jets of steam fired at some kind of mesh with a high voltage signal applied to it (as well as a high voltage bias)

The steam would be attracted (or repelled depending how you charged the water) in sympathy with the audio signal, hopefully creating pressure waves
 
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