Ethana, sure it will take forever if you use something like bittorrent to download your HD fix. But usenet is very quick. An example of how quick; I downloaded an entire series of a tv show in under 3 hours(close to 10gigs). Thats how long it can take to download cams off of bittorrent.
:$ I just realised that it would b the water coming out of the bowl, and not the cistern. So scrub the last post, unless they place the generator between the cistern and the bowl. And that is most unlikely
Im only fifteen and Im just about the complete my course in standard grade physics(Scottish high school qualifications).
Are you talking about converting teh potential energy stored in the water into electrical. If so that is a huge waste of time. Ep=mgh
AFAIK my cistern holds 7 litres of water so mass = 7kg. my cistern is just under a metre high above the ground so height = 1m(for simplicity) and the gravitational field strength is just under 10 and ill round it to 10 for ease.
so working out the potential energy of that water is 70 joules. And then the generator is not going to be 100% efficient, lets call it 50% so 35joules of energy. That, is utterly useless.
As much as i hate the man for his arrogance, he has a point. In my house only two people read for pleasure, myself and my mum, and she only reads once in a blue moon. I think that the largest problem is that most books that are published are closer to litter that literature.
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Mar 6th 2008 12:56PM (Engadget)Are you talking about converting teh potential energy stored in the water into electrical. If so that is a huge waste of time. Ep=mgh
AFAIK my cistern holds 7 litres of water so mass = 7kg.
my cistern is just under a metre high above the ground so height = 1m(for simplicity)
and the gravitational field strength is just under 10 and ill round it to 10 for ease.
so working out the potential energy of that water is 70 joules. And then the generator is not going to be 100% efficient, lets call it 50% so 35joules of energy. That, is utterly useless.
S**t idea. :P
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