First discovery of a new electricity source in more than 160 years...

[Velociryx]

St_swithin....you're awesome!

-=Vel=-
(and sign me up for that fan club!)

[st_swithin]

I wonder how many flavours those quarktets are gonna come in...probably a multiple of 5.

[Ted Striker]

you have to take baby steps before you can sprint people

don't hate congratulate

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
i don't see the same result with h. too many people will be using the old cars, using old engines, and gasoline will be cheaper, at least for the first few years, if not permanently.

Economic incentives could do wonders

[Q Classic]

i mention that:

unless it's heavily subsidized by the government, even as it runs at heavy losses for several years, the infrastructure will not develop.

[Drake Tungsten]

Why not? I'm just as big a geek as the next guy.

You have a better sense of absurd timing than the other people here.

It certainly has nothing to do with you being a woman. I don't treat Q Cubed any different because she's a chick.

[Q Classic]

It certainly has nothing to do with you being a woman. I don't treat Q Cubed any different because she's a chick.

what makes you think i'm a girl?

[Urban Ranger]

Q^3 is a woman?

[mrmitchell]

Oh yeah, BTW

The first new one in "160 years"? So nuclear power was not found within the last 160 years? I assume ol' Ben Franklin drew up the designs for a nuclear power plant, eh?

Hasn't electricity (the harnessing of it) only been around for so much longer than that, anyways?

[Q Classic]

Q^3 is a woman?

might explain why i don't have a thing for britney, if ted striker's to be believed.

but my gf thinks i have a flat chest. i just asked.

[Dis]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
Oh yeah, BTW

The first new one in "160 years"? So nuclear power was not found within the last 160 years? I assume ol' Ben Franklin drew up the designs for a nuclear power plant, eh?

Hasn't electricity (the harnessing of it) only been around for so much longer than that, anyways?

The thing about nuclear power is nuclear fission does not actually produce electricity. A nuclear reactor is essentually a big heater.

It is a generator spun by a steam turbine that produces the electricty. That method of producing electricity has been around for a while.

[st_swithin]

Q^3: ask your gf if you have no a55 too.

DT: must have been all those episodes of Monty Python's I viewed as a child, seeping into my present-day absurdity.

Vel: You're my new hero!!

[Velociryx]

*contemplates being St_Swithin's hero*





-=Vel=-

[KrazyHorse]

Re: First discovery of a new electricity source in more than 160 years...

Originally posted by Asher

http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/expressnews/articles/news.cfm?p_ID=5117&s=0

The benefits look great, at least for devices with low current requirements, given that the technology matures. Can the physics-types here give their opinion on this?

Also see the BBC article and The Globe & Mail.

Yeah. My opinion is that

a) They'll never get close to the energy density of a battery using this method.

b) We already have a method of generating power via pressure differential; it's called a turbine, and is almost certainly more efficient.

c) Who the hell wants water flowing through an electronic device?

It's interesting but silly. I can guarantee that turbulence going to heating up waterflow is stealing more energy from you than is reasonable.

[Kuciwalker]

KrazyHorse - how could it even work at all? Would the water have to be flowing continuously for it to store energy? Isn't it no different from using a flywheel as a battery? Won't it stop because of friction?