>This explains how trees can raise water to their tops beyond the 32 feet
>limit said an ecstatic Mr Fletcher. He believes that the discovery also
>suggests a
> mechanism by which all life on earth has evolved from the ground."
The generally accepted theory explaining the movement of water in
plants is The Cohesion-Tension Theory. The movement of water to heights of
20 meters to the tops of oak trees and even 125 meters to the tops of tall
redwoods is a solar powered event.
Water is a polar molecule. The positively charged hydrogens of one water
molecule are attracted to the negatively charged oxygen of neighboring water
molecules. The cohesion resulting from these attractions is so great that
the tensile strength in a thin column of water can be as much as 140Kg per
square cm. (2000Lbs per square inch). This means that a negative pressure of
140Kg per square cm is required to pull the column apart.
Water loss (transpiration) powers water movement through plants. As
water evaporates from a leaf, water from tracheids and vessels moves into
the leaf. They, in turn are linked to others, forming a long, continuous
stream of water reaching all the way down into the root hairs, and even into
the surrounding soil. Increase transpiration ---> increase water uptake and
the rate of water movement in plants.
Tom
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Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 1:17 PM
Subject: [Biofuel] Eureka! Cliff experiment pulls plug on 300 year old lawof
physics
> Eureka!
> Cliff experiment pulls plug on 300 year old law of physics
> _http://www3.sympatico.ca/slavek.krepelka/exper/EUREKA.gif_
> (http://www3.sympatico.ca/slavek.krepelka/exper/EUREKA.gif)
>
>
> A Revolutionary breakthrough claimed by a Paignton man is to be
> investigated by top scientists. Ideas man Andrew K Fletcher claims he has
> disproved a
> fundamental law of
> physics dating back to the 17th century. And impressed by the historic
> experiment at Overgang cliff, Brixham, to raise water 78 feet without the
> support
> of any artificial aids,
> John Hunt, Senior forestry Officer for Devon and Somerset who witnessed
> the
> experiment's success last Friday said: 'It was quite impressive.
>
> The rule that water will only rise 32 feet under atmospheric pressure
> when
> in a column was effectively disproved."
>
> But Mr Hunt explained that he is a professional forester not a scientist
> and
> a report on the experiment would be sent to the Forestry commission 's
> Alice
> Holt Research Station,
> near Farnham in Surrey, for further investigation. Mr Fletcher's
> experiment
> involves a long water filled plastic tube, strung up the cliffside with
> both
> open ends placed in two filled demijohns. A small amount of a salt
> solution
> is added at the top of the tube before it is completely filled with
> water,
> this acts as a liquid pulley says Mr Fletcher, lifting water from one
> demijohn
> to the other, thereby disproving Torriceli's 17th century law.
> This explains how trees can raise water to their tops beyond the 32 feet
> limit."
> said an ecstatic Mr Fletcher. He believes that the discovery also
> suggests a
> mechanism by which all life on earth has evolved from the ground.
>
> The Experiment at Brixham Overgang Cliffs where water flowed vertical up
> a
> single 6 mm bore tubing using 10 mils of salt solution, demonstrating
> that a
> tiny amount of denser solution can lift effortlessly many thousands of
> times it
> ’s own volume in water without any artificial aids, demonstrating clearly
> a
> non living physical cause of bulk flow in plants trees, animals and
> humans.
> The 10 metre limit for lifting water clearly needs some serious revision.
> View
> The Historic Event on Youtube as it unfolded all those years ago and ask
> why
> has this important discovery been ignored for so long.
>
> VIDEO
> _http://www.metacafe.com/watch/786493/water_flowing_up_a_cliff_to_24_metres_wi
> th_no_pump_experimen/#_
> (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/786493/water_flowing_up_a_cliff_to_24_metres_with_no_pump_experimen/#)
>
> Online experiment details:
>
> _http://www.the-tree.org.uk/TreeTalk/3Spring2003/Gravity/gravity1.htm_
> (http://www.the-tree.org.uk/TreeTalk/3Spring2003/Gravity/gravity1.htm)
>
>
> _http://www.myspace.com/inclined_bed_therapy_
> (http://www.myspace.com/inclined_bed_therapy)
>
>
> Andrew K Fletcher
>
>
> Online Theory with Gif animation:
> _http://www.the-tree.org.uk/TreeTalk/3Spring2003/Gravity/gravity1.htm_
> (http://www.the-tree.org.uk/TreeTalk/3Spring2003/Gravity/gravity1.htm)
>
>
>
> Medical Physics Newsletter publications:
>
> _http://groups.iop.org/ME/archive_newsletter2002010.htm_
> (http://groups.iop.org/ME/archive_newsletter2002010.htm)
>
> _http://groups.iop.org/ME/archive_newsletter2003014.htm_
> (http://groups.iop.org/ME/archive_newsletter2003014.htm)
>
> The work Of Professor H.T.Hammel:
> EVERYTHING YOU WERE TAUGHT ABOUT OSMOSIS IS WRONG.
> Osmosis is the reason that a fresh water fish placed in the ocean
> desiccates
> and dies. Osmosis is the reason that blisters form on fiberglass boat
> hulls.
> Osmosis is how waste products of metabolism enter and leave the blood
> stream. Osmosis determines how you, me and every living thing lives and
> dies. One
> would think that a civilization that spends billions of dollars every
> year on
> medical research would understand something as basic as osmosis. Wrong,
> wrong, wrong.
> _http://www.yarbroughlaw.com/Osmosis.htm_
> (http://www.yarbroughlaw.com/Osmosis.htm)
>
>
>
>
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