Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:06:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: generating electricity
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> http://www.iop.org/news/632
>
> "...Research published today by the Institute of
> Physics journal,
> Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
> reveals a new method of
> generating electric power by harnessing the natural
> electrokinetic
> properties of a liquid such as ordinary tap water
> when it is pumped
> through tiny microchannels. The research team from
> the University of
> Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, have created a new source
> of clean
> non-polluting electric power with a variety of
> possible uses, ranging
> from powering small electronic devices to
> contributing to a national
> power grid..."
>

So, does you get more electricity out than you use to
run the high pressure water pumps?  I remember back
when I worked for TVA, there were people who wrote us
and told us we could get rid of all that polluting
coal that was being burned to make electricity by
using electric heaters in the boilers instead.  This
happened more frequently than you'd think.

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