In this blog I will be posting progress updates on my latest science project, which is an investigation into the feasibility of water arc explosions for power generation. The project has two main goals:
a) to reproduce the experimental results obtained by P. Graneau et al. in their research on water arc explosions (i.e. the findings that the kinetic energy of an electrically-induced fog explosion can exceed the electrical input energy)
b) to design and build an apparatus to convert the kinetic energy of such a water arc explosion into useful electrical energy, using either an array of conventional turbo generators or a variant MHD generator.
As of now I am still gathering materials and resources for the experimental apparatus. I will be able to post some design elements of the project (e.g. circuit diagrams) soon.
Hi some of us are actually dummies when it comes to physics and kinematics and stuff. Though you gave a description of what your project entails, can you also give a brief introduction into what actually water arc is?
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