Am 04.12.2011 00:29, schrieb Horace Heffner:
On Dec 3, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Peter Heckert wrote:
Am 04.12.2011 00:01, schrieb Peter Heckert:
I dont believe, he used this for the water thread experiment.
This needs more current.
I tried with deionized water, but my supply was too week. It should
deliver about 100µA.
Its a TV split diode flyback transformer driven by a selfbuild
electronics.
He writes here, he did not do the experiment himself:
http://amasci.com/freenrg/wasser.html
Again, you confuse this with Bill Beaty's experiments. They are
related but not identical at all. Very different linear range, thread
diameter, and currents.
I cannot find a water thread experiment made by him.
Here is an water thread experiment with a closeup macro video:
http://youtu.be/iC8KDYcdiUI
It can be seen, there is a fast flow and some turbulence inside the
water thread.
It is a dynamic equilibrium and not an static equilibrium.
Of course for air experiments there is not much power required and I
have seen and admired Bill Beatys experiments before.
And yes, he is right, there are threads in air. He demonstated this very
well and it impressed me.
Again, this are dynamic flowing threads, not static threads.
And if the flow is fast enough there can be a local µm sized vacuum at
the needles tip.
This is what I tryed to explain.....
Peter
Lets assume the electrical resistance of the water thread is some
megaohm.
Then the current at 10 kV is some milliampere and the required power
is in the 50 to 100 Watt range.
I have read everything about this sometime ago and calculated the
expected resistance.
A resistance from some ten MegOhms upto 1 Gigaohm must be expected
It cannot work if the water does not conduct, because in this case
the electric field does not propagate over the thread.
Also there is a steady water flow from one glass into the other,
caused by the current. Without this it does not work.
There are many videos, in some it is visible, that the water thread
is hot.
The experiment is fun, but I dont think it is a water anomaly.
Peter
Sigh.
There was a huge amount of discussion of this on vortex-l. Is see no
reason to repeat it.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
