Water Powered Batteries with MIT’s Walter Levin lessons
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This video proves that energy can be tranformed into a battery, perhaps confirming that it is possible to make a battery with a candle, lime, or potatoes.
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It’s called Kelvin water dropper (AKA kelvins thunderstorm)
now, unlike wool you might be able to start a car with this.
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wow I didn’t know you had smiley.
lets see
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wow 5 out of 5 sorry for the off topic posts
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Mouarf. Potatoes battery is just chemical, as the first Volta battery was. No relation with this water battery.
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Zedomax, I watched the video you have linked and it was very interesting, I am guessing here that the static charge is actually provided through the the transfer of a eletrostatic charge (electron transfer) between the water running throught the barrel and plastic tubing. This would allow the water to transfer it’s charge from the friction with the tubing – through the air (made easier with a humid atmosphere”water”) to the smaller (insulated) cans allowing the charge to build up till it can bridge the gap between the two metal rods.
-Ryan
also look here for more info –
HowStuff Works – Static electricity
http://science.howstuffworks.com/vdg1.htm
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cool i wodered how this worked.. i even aske dmy science teacher… she didnt know…
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this is a boroque one :O
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wheres the rest of the video???
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