10,000 Volt Arcs Created by Falling Water Droplets
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A stream of water is split into two streams and falls through two bottomless cans into two buckets. The falling water creates opposite electrical charges in the buckets, and high voltage arcs jump between them periodically.
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The nutty guy is MIT Professor, Walter Lewin.

There's a brief written explanation of these shennanigans here...

http://www.rmcybernetics.com/projects/experiments/experiments_kelvins_thunderstorm_electrostatics.htm


written by deputydog  | 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH
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very cool


written by deathcow  | 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH
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upvote for dutch professor.


written by waka  | 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH
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i dont get how it makes the opposite side more of the opposite charge


written by johnald128  | 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH
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ahhh! sparking buckets! I'd heard about this years ago but always wanted to actually see it!


written by gluonium  | 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH
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Big upvote! Coolest science project I've seen in years.


written by Spoon_Gouge  | 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH
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I need the toilet now.


written by darksun  | 1 year 6 months 1 week ago | CH
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why aren't we using this to power our computers and cool them at the same time?....


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*dead


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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by Shasdo.


written by siftbot  | 6 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Awarding uhohzombies with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.


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