Lolly Stick MHD motor - File test

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Original poster: "Sarah Thompson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <sarah-at-telergy-dot-com>

By way of trying out Terry's new file area*, here are three pictures of a
recent MHD experiment we did.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/topview.jpg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/hand1.jpg
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/hand2.jpg

We made a small submarine crawler drive style MHD motor from four lolly
sticks, a couple of pieces of roofing lead for electrodes, copious
quantities of electricians tape and four small neodymium-iron-boron magnets.
As you can see from the photos, it did work - the images were taken when the
device was being run at 38 volts and approximately 3 amps. However, I think
that most of this power was doing electrochemical stuff and also simply
heating the water, because the flow rate was quite low and quite a
substantial amount of gunge was emitted from the motor. The motor emitted
variously insoluble white gunge and insoluble black gunge - as we were
running with a fairly concentrated solution of salt (sodium chloride) these
are presumably lead compounds.

And while I'm at it - happy new year!

Sarah

>>*Not quite on topic, but since your the first person brave enough to try
the system ;-) - Terry<<