Water Powered Batteries with MIT’s Walter Levin lessons

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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Tags: battery, Circuits, Consumer, Cool, Earth, Educational, Energy, Entertainment, Gadgets, lime-battery, potato-battery, Video, water-battery, Zedomax

This entry was posted by max on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007 at 9:04 am and is filed under Circuits, Consumer, Cool, Earth, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Video.

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Andy

It's called Kelvin water dropper (AKA kelvins thunderstorm)

now, unlike wool you might be able to start a car with this. :)

Andy

wow I didn't know you had smiley.

lets see :) :( ;) :D :P

Andy

wow 5 out of 5 sorry for the off topic posts :o

Flor27

Mouarf. Potatoes battery is just chemical, as the first Volta battery was. No relation with this water battery.

max

:) :>

Flyinrhino1

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

girrrrrrr2

cool i wodered how this worked.. i even aske dmy science teacher... she didnt know...

Izl

this is a boroque one :O

andy

wheres the rest of the video???

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