Re: [compost_tea] Re: Water voodoo?

From: David Anderson <squtch_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:08:05 -0800
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 23:45:29 -0800, Ted Peterson <ted.peterson_at_tcsn.net> wrote:
> True but they are still subject to the Earth's magnetic field.
>  
> Ted Peterson

Yes, and your point is? You bring up some obscure point without
showing how it might have any sort of causal relationship.

Yeah, a magnetic field (earth's) and a conductor (water) moving
through that field is how a generator works. But it doesn not matter
which direction the conductor moves.

It will have the same effect no matter which way it is spinning.

And no matter which way it is spinning, any but the purest water is
incredibly conductive. You cannot generate that sort of potential with
impure water in a bucket stirring with a stick. And if it was a vortex
of dry air, where you *could* generate potential, you would not change
the charge by changing the direction of rotation because it would be
static electricity that would form way more of the potential than the
magnetic field of the earth.(and dry air is a lousy conductor, so it
would not make a very good generator)

It is great to say "well, what about ..." but it would be nice if you
showed something that would actually explain how you can get 100kV of
potential stirring a bucket of dirty water. Obviously if someone is
claiming it, their must be some sort of reasonable explanation for it.

Even if you cannot find an explanation for it, show where someone has
actually measured it.

Something? Anything?

I'm willing to be convinced. But you are giving noting of substance.

Dave

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