SoullessAutomaton comments on Compartmentalization as a passive phenomenon - Less Wrong
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This won't work for spherical shells and uniformly distributed charge for the same reason that a spherical shell has no net gravitational force on anything inside it. You'll need active counterbalancing.
Ah, true, I didn't think of that, or rather didn't think to generalize the gravitational case.
Amusingly, that makes a nice demonstration of the topic of the post, thus bringing us full circle.