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HiTech · 11th July 2006, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by usmankhan

Hello,
I have an aircraft receiver if anyone have need i can help .
Your Friend
Usman Khan

Uuuh, what does that have to do with the topic, or the price of a barrel of oil as well? Are you posting in the wrong thread?

phalanx · 12th July 2006, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by usmankhan

Hello,
I have an aircraft receiver if anyone have need i can help .
Your Friend
Usman Khan

Whatever you filled your hookah with was worth every penny!

Oznog · 12th July 2006, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

Oznog: Then you're also saying that a battery is not a source of energy. (and you might want to look up the word: fraud)

Nope, the battery plates are more specifically the source of energy. The terminals, case, electrolyte are not. I made my lemon batteries in junior high by taking apart carbon-zinc batteries for the plates, which was sort of pointless.

It's a "fraud" in that it implies that potatoes, etc can be grown for power, but in fact you'd need to grow electrodes to do that. Not a really harmful fraud, just misinformation.

Guy makes a 500 lb potato battery, probably the world's largest:
http://latteier.com/potato/

mramos1 · 13th July 2006, 07:22 PM

The current from a tree will never be enough. I heard about taking the lids off power transistors once, and that was fun. I had with three of them in the sun, about 1.5 volts. I was excited, ran for an LED (to see it in the sunlight; right) until I saw the current.

So a tree and nail might have saved me some time on my waste of time..

bristol188 · 15th August 2006, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by adaminc

I saw this on tv a few days ago, but apparently, tree's generate power, MIT is looking into how, but the preliminary hypothesis is because there is constantly moving sap, it generates a potentional between the tree and ground, so by putting a nail in the tree and a nail in the ground, you can measure a potential, its very small, but if you had a massive forest, you could probably pull a lot of power, lol.

here's a link I just found on the subject.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006..._power_p_1.php

There is an extention to this exp. you can try, if you set it up nail, copper &
voltmeter, then get an opserver to watch the meter, then go and get a bigger
nail & bigger hammer, apporche the tree. The opserver will notice a rise in volts as you close on the tree.

If you can belive this you can belive anything.

dknguyen · 16th August 2006, 01:25 AM

Lisa: "That's specious reasoning, dad."
Homer: "THank you, honey."
Lisa: "By your reasoning, this rock keeps tigers away."
Homer: "Hmmm, how does it work?"
Lisa: "It doesn't work."
Homer: "Hmmm, I see."
Lisa: "It's just a stupid rock...but I don't see any tigers around here... do you?"
Homer: "Lisa, I want to buy your rock."
*Homer offers her a wad of money, and she puts up her hand and looks away and shakes her head, but then accepts the money. Homer holds onto the rock with a wide grin.*

16th August 2006, 01:25 AM	(permalink)
dknguyen Experienced Member	Lisa: "That's specious reasoning, dad." Homer: "THank you, honey." Lisa: "By your reasoning, this rock keeps tigers away." Homer: "Hmmm, how does it work?" Lisa: "It doesn't work." Homer: "Hmmm, I see." Lisa: "It's just a stupid rock...but I don't see any tigers around here... do you?" Homer: "Lisa, I want to buy your rock." Homer offers her a wad of money, and she puts up her hand and looks away and shakes her head, but then accepts the money. Homer holds onto the rock with a wide grin. Last edited by dknguyen; 16th August 2006 at 01:29 AM.

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13th July 2006, 07:22 PM	(permalink)
mramos1 Experienced Member	The current from a tree will never be enough. I heard about taking the lids off power transistors once, and that was fun. I had with three of them in the sun, about 1.5 volts. I was excited, ran for an LED (to see it in the sunlight; right) until I saw the current. So a tree and nail might have saved me some time on my waste of time..