Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub? (fruity goodness)

["Warrend Greenway" <dub@linuxmail.org>]

Were the probes dissimilar metals? I made a sea-water battery before,
using plates that were arranged like gills that the brine flowed
through. Worked great. Only problem is that the elecrton migration consumes
the plates and in the end it is more expensive then standard batteries!

Warren.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:05:11 -0600 David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
writes:
>I think I overreacted. My mail software must have had some kind of a 
>hiccup, because I seem to have duplicates of all these bingo-fodder 
>messages.

Duplicates?   This stuff is bad enough without being duplicated.

>On Sunday, Jan 5, 2003, at 15:41 US/Central, Michael B Holt wrote:
>> ...American Science and Surplus catalog....  latest Good Idea... 
>> inexpensive power!... getting the
>> involvement of the women in our lives... bushels of, say, apples... 
>> eat the power sources... blah, blah

Do I sense a certain lack of faith?   Alas!  

>Once after seeing an ad for a potato clock (and drinking vodka in the 
>Airstream we were living through a Minnesota winter in), I spent much 
>of an evening feeding past-ripe fruit, mostly citrus (thinking the 
>higher acidity would help), through the Cuisinart.

No, I don't know the chemistry here.  It seems logical to me that
the acidity would help.  

> Then I poured it 
>into these big green cylindrical jars my potter friend had made 
>(actually for battery cases, believe it or not-- but he'd been planning 
>on sufuric acid from scavenged car batteries) and inserted a couple of 
>probes through a plastic lid. By hooking several of these in series I 
>was able to get just enough power to make one of those common, 1.5V 
>clock movements to twitch and not quite make it to the next second. 

Hmmm ....  Does this suggest that we need a motor with no moving
parts, in order for the thing to be useful?

>Then it was time for "X-Files," and we lost interest. I dumped the 
>whole mess on the compost pile after a few days. Where did I go wrong?

Next time add the vodka to the mess in the jars.



Mike H.

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