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Generally, static electricity is created by friction between two or more different materials and it doesn't flow through a circuit.

On the other hand, current electricity is the flow of electrons through a circuit.

I want to know if there is any way to convert static electricity into current electricity? If it is indeed possible can we use it to get sufficient energy?

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    $\begingroup$ This is precisely what happens when you shock something after building a static charge, it then moves and becomes a current. $\endgroup$
    – Triatticus
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 5:33
  • $\begingroup$ I am asking about flow through an electric circuit. $\endgroup$
    – Debanjan Biswas
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 9:51
  • $\begingroup$ Then touch a grounded circuit after walking over a carpet. $\endgroup$
    – tobalt
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 11:04
  • $\begingroup$ Well the closest circuit element is a capacitor, technically speaking a capacitor is a storage device for static charges that can then be discharged to power a circuit element. $\endgroup$
    – Triatticus
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 18:35

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One can produce static electricity continuously for example by a Van de Graaff accelerator (Look it up in wikipedia) it is used to create a current of fast electrons or other elementary particles trough vacuum. One could theoretically use it for current through resistors. But the efficiency would be very, very low, so it has no practical use.

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  • $\begingroup$ What other elementary particles? $\endgroup$
    – Debanjan Biswas
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 14:26
  • $\begingroup$ Any charged particle or ion , it was used to accelerate protons $\endgroup$
    – trula
    Commented May 8, 2022 at 17:50

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