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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on December 28, 2016, 1702 UTC

Title: Power from Tap Water
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 28, 2016, 1702 UTC

PBS News Hour just ran this report on an inventor who wants to extract the power from H20:

HARI SREENIVASAN: Imagine a mini power supply in your house or car that made it possible for you to be off the grid. What if that source of energy was totally clean and powered by simple tap water?

Well, a Greek scientist claims to have created a machine that converts water into power.

http://www.off-grid.net/power-tap-water/

Sigh.

Title: Re: Power from Tap Water
Post by: Josh on December 28, 2016, 1855 UTC

If only we could store lightning bolts. Also, up there in the idunnosphere is about 300k volts and a few brazillion amperes of free lectricity, if only for a wire long enough to reach up there and tap it.

Title: Re: Power from Tap Water
Post by: Pigmeat on December 29, 2016, 0342 UTC

That Greek guy looks familiarly odd. There is something about him that says "trailers" and "slide rules".

Title: Re: Power from Tap Water
Post by: ka1iic on January 11, 2017, 1846 UTC

Check out how much energy is contained in rocks...  no joke they do contain a lot of energy.  Take one from a river bed and toss it into your camp fire and run like hell... (don't really do this please)...  more fun then a barrel of balls.

Title: Re: Power from Tap Water
Post by: Pigmeat on January 11, 2017, 2136 UTC

I come from a land of semi-porus sandstone where rocks from anywhere in a campfire can become shrapnel. I don't care how many people they know that have been hurt or maimed because of it, some jackass is going to do it on every trip out in the woods. He's normally the guy who "breathes" fire with moonshine and shoots down saplings with buckshot from five yards away. If your lucky he'll get up to piss in the night and walk over a cliff. Otherwise he's going to hurt some folks before he hits prison for the first time at 21 or kills himself with a car.

It's why us older guys won't go in the woods with young guys. The real idiots haven't been culled.

Title: Re: Power from Tap Water
Post by: ka1iic on January 12, 2017, 0412 UTC

I wonder how much energy can be gotten from 'Piss Boy, Oh piss boy'  ???

Maybe I should ask the TRON about that... me remembers a 4th of July party and a piss-oline bo-mb experiment during said party...  I remember the thing bubbling away but for some reason that is all I remember...  don't even remember going home...  wow... old-timers disease I guess...