Apr 1, 2007

Water-powered mp3 Player

Posted in Geek, Physics, Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- 6 Comments; add your comment

In this week’s video, MIT’s Walter Lewin demonstrates how to produce 10 to 15000 volts of electricity using a couple of empty paint cans, a bucket of water, some wire, and two balls. The question is how does this work and could you use it like the potato powered mp3 player?

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I’ll look forward to seeing your suggestions in the comments and will post a more detailed explanation the the answers tomorrow.