When I posted that, I wasn't looking for a way to shake bubbles of the electrode plates, all you need to do that is a small low voltage DC motor with an off balance flywheel; so I'm not concerned with getting the bubbles off through more exotic methods. Nor was it directly related to AlaskaStar's design.
What I was doing is playing with the idea that water molecules have a natural 'resonance', and that if you get the right frequency, you could potentially push it like a pendulum (just a timed nudge to get it going faster) increasing it's energy state, and making it easier to crack with electricity.
If you use sound, you have the benefit of using acoustics to amplify/focus your energy.
I saw once, an experiment in which two low frequency, high amp speakers were used to resonate a precise point in a spherical beaker (I cant think of what those are called).
The two speakers were set up at 90 degrees from the beaker. the sound waves entered the beaker, the spherical shape bounced them around, focusing them at the center of the beaker.
An interesting thing occurred.. a bright blue light appears dead center inside the beaker. On closer inspection, they reported the events of the reaction like so:
A bubble appears in the center of this acoustic chamber, and instantly collapses (2/1000 of a second or so) when it collapses, a bright blue light is emitted.
I think the word fusion was used several times.. but it was uncertain if that was the cause of the light.
Either way, I think this said a lot about the power of physical oscillation.
(You can see something simmilar with the pistol shrimp, which snaps its claw so fast that a shockwave stuns it's enimy... it also creates a brief flash of light... odd!)Statistics: Posted by Cryptonic26 — Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:00 pm
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