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Probably, but it would take a lot of mechanical force. From the article: > The compression is only 3 percent, but that pressurizes the water—it's equivalent to
by stephengillie 8y ago
Probably, but it would take a lot of mechanical force. From the article:
> The compression is only 3 percent, but that pressurizes the water—it's equivalent to 100 atmospheres
Although, that's not uncommon for ice giants, so it might be causing part of Ouranos (aka Uranus) magnetic field.
> The troposphere is thought to have a highly complex cloud structure; water clouds are hypothesised to lie in the pressure range of 50 to 100 bar[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus
- rdlecler1 8y agoImplication: Depending on the energy input, couldn’t you create an engine from this? Sounds like a perpetual motion machine.
- stephengillie 8y agoThis effect does convert energy from mechanical to electrical, and so could be used in a type of engine. But AFAIK there would still be inefficiencies causing this conversion to be less than 100%, and so sadly not a perpetual motion machine.
- CamperBob2 8y agoCoincidentally, I just watched a great video by Ben Krasnow yesterday that suggests that the answer to fooker's question is indeed "Yes." There are other well-known principles along these lines, ranging from piezoelectricity to the Seebeck and Peltier effects, and it's almost more of a rule than an exception for such effects to behave symmetrically. Glowing plasma created by a high speed jet of water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTq8oGpqwM&list=LLaIdy5TkkQclZa0K4LaCJEw&index=2&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vTq8oGpqwM&list=LLaIdy5TkkQ... He definitely has the "whole lot of mechanical force" thing going for him, considering that he's about 2 psi away from fragging himself with a hydraulic cylinder.