Frederick Sparber wrote:
Reminiscent of the early 1940's when a neighbor kid urinated on
an electric fence,Once.
My first thought on reading this was "Ouch!!". It reminds me of a tale
I heard of a drunk taking a leak on the third rail of the subway, for an
even bigger "ouch".
But my second thought was, "How can this work??? Something's weird here!"
I'm sure we all know what a stream of urine looks like -- sparkly, not
smooth. And I expect we all know why: like the ubiquitous displays in
science museums of a stream of falling water with a strobe light
flashing on it, which "freezes" the stream as a line of little beads
when the strobe's set just right, the stream breaks up into droplets
very early -- long before it would actually hit anything.
So, at the point of contact with the wire, the "stream" is actually a
line of separate falling drops. It's not a continuous stream, at all.
But for these tales to be true, the "stream" must conduct electricity.
How can a line of disjoint drops conduct electricity?
Are these stories of disastrous encounters with electric fences and
third rails all apocryphal, or is there some mechanism by which current
can flow through a discontiguous line of water droplets?
Fred
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Frederick Sparber <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To: *vortex-l <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* 12/17/2005 5:52:07 AM
*Subject:* Re: A Conductive Jet Switch?
Since exploding wire technology is employed to maximize energy
density, but
is slow and cumbersome, why not a jet of electrolyte or metal to
effect kilojoule-megajoule
energy discharge of capacitor banks?
For instance a pool of Lithium Hydroxide Electrolyte, D2 Gas, or
D2O on top of a Cathode Pool of
Mercury with an insulation-sleeved Tungsten-Tipped Anode in a sealed
chamber, triggered by
electro-hydraulic actuation of a plunger-orifice device in the pool?
Fred
