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Language: en
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TV greetings citizens welcome to the
corilanus 99 solar thermal power plant
in the heart of District
5 this facility generates over 7% of our
proud capitals energy needs but did you
know that you can generate electricity
from Mere drops of
water I'm going to show you an
experiment that does just that as we
turn on the water it falls through these
rings and onto this mesh below but look
here after a
moment there it is it generates a spark
of roughly 20,000 th000 volts of
electricity and there is no power source
here no turbine as in traditional Hydro
generation in fact there are no moving
Parts at all we are creating electricity
using only the intrinsic properties of
falling water so how does it work well
water contains charged particles called
ions it has equal numbers of positive
and negative ions so overall it's
neutral however as the water falls there
will sometimes be a slight charge
imbalance with a little bit more
negative charge over here and a bit more
positive charge there under ordinary
circumstances these variations would
even out over time but not in this case
here's the ingenious part the mesh on
the left is connected to the ring on the
right so if this mesh becomes negatively
charged then so does this ring and now
that ring will attract the positively
charged ions in theall water so the mesh
on the right will now be more positively
charged meaning so is this
ring so what we have is a clear
separation of charge there's a
positively charged stream on the right
and a negatively charged stream on the
left and the more the charge builds up
on the meshes the faster that charge
increases and finally when we have
reached our designed operating voltage
of 20,000 volts electrons jump from the
negative rings to the positive ones
through this spark gap ionizing the air
as they do so we have created an
electric generator with little more than
a stream of water droplets no field of
mirrors or enormous coal burning plant
is required in fact with access to the
right materials you could even build
this apparatus at
home thank you for your attention we
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