With regard to my 'apparent' dismissal of high voltage <g>..you wrote;
> I took an electronics class last year and I was under the impression
> that voltage could be turned in to current.
Put a load on it and watch what happens....perhaps to charge a battery,
then try to accumulate it to a degree that it now has useful charge but
it would be like tapping into static shocks from walking across a
carpet...nothing wrong with that except that there is no 'real'
power...maybe you know something I don't but I've tinkered with both AC
and DC high voltage, from static discharges to a Van De Graff/Wimhurst
and Tesla machines...of course they require power to produce the high
voltage as would the power needed to pump the water if you wanted to tap
into a water vortex or wasserfaden.
Do you have some additional insight into how to accumulate enough of
this static type high voltage to drive a load or do useful work? Please
do share it as I for one am all ears...
It is interesting that 'water knives' (where water is pumped though a
nozzle at 50,000 psi or so) also create very high and very dangerous
static charges which will orbit around the nozzle...a high tech version
of the wasserfaden used to cut all kinds of material with amazingly
clean cuts.
Perhaps if you could ramp this water vortex up to Niagara proportions,
then you'd be talking but it is more efficient to use the water paddle
turbines we currently use.
If we could find a paddle type turbine blade or material that had an
adjustable resistance to gravity, then we'd have one answer. I however
prefer the idea of creating a 'hole' that ambient energy would 'fall'
into...science fiction at this point but IMO achievable...
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