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10,000 Volt Arcs Created by Falling Water Droplets

submitted by deputydog

1 decade 7 years 7 months 4 weeks ago

A stream of water is split into two streams and falls through two bottomless cans into two buckets. The falling water creates opposite electrical charges in the buckets, and high voltage arcs jump between them periodically.

20 Comments

The nutty guy is MIT Professor, Walter Lewin.

There's a brief written explanation of these shennanigans here...

http://www.rmcybernetics.com/projects/experiments/experiments_kelvins_thunderstorm_electrostatics.htm

very cool

upvote for dutch professor.

johnald128 says...

i dont get how it makes the opposite side more of the opposite charge

ahhh! sparking buckets! I'd heard about this years ago but always wanted to actually see it!

Spoon_Gouge says...

Big upvote! Coolest science project I've seen in years.

I need the toilet now.

why aren't we using this to power our computers and cool them at the same time?....

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Efflixi says...

wow!

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