Kelvin's Water Dropper Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:13:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Kelvin’s Water Dropper – How to Build a Water-Powered Spark Generator https://www.greenoptimistic.com/kelvin-water-dropper-diy-spark-generator-20180721/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/kelvin-water-dropper-diy-spark-generator-20180721/#respond Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:13:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=66303 The instructables’ user KentG13 showed how we can make a Kelvin’s Water Dropper (also called Kelvin’s Thunderstorm) at home in a “Macgyver” style. The device uses falling water to generate voltage differences by electrostatic induction occurring between interconnected, oppositely charged systems. It can put out several thousand volts of electricity, but because of low amperage, […]

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