Sunday, January 6, 2013
A fly only has 2 eyes
Most people think flies have hundreds of eyes but a fly only has two eyes.
A fly has one on each side of its head. Each eye is a compound eye meaning the same facet is repeated 800 times (for fruit flies).
Each facet is called an ommatidia or simple eye. Each ommatidia is composed of a set of photoreceptor neurons that detects light.
author: Larry Lim
Use Lightning For Free Energy
It has been proposed that the energy contained in lightning be used to generate hydrogenfrom water, or to harness the energy from rapid heating of water due to lightning
Picture credit before our edits = Luis Romero
Since the late 1980s, there have been several attempts to investigate the possibility of harvesting energy from lightning.
A single bolt of lightning carries approximately 5 billion joules or about the energy stored in 145 litre of petrol, this energy is concentrated in a small location and is passed during an extremely short period of time (milliseconds); therefore, extremely high electrical power is involved.
In the summer of 2007, an alternative energy company called Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc. (AEHI) tested a method for capturing the energy in lightning bolts. The design for the system had been purchased from an Illinois inventor named Steve LeRoy, who had reportedly been able to power a 60-watt light bulb for 20 minutes using the energy captured from a small flash of artificial lightning. The method involved a tower, a means of shunting off a large portion of the incoming energy, and a capacitor to store the rest. According to Donald Gillispie, CEO of AEHI, they "couldn't make it work,"
Another relatively easy method is the direct harvesting of atmospheric charge before it turns into lightning. At a small scale, it was done a few times with the most known example being Benjamin Franklin's experiment with his kite. However, to collect reasonable amounts of energy very large constructions are required, and it is relatively hard to utilize the resulting extremely high voltage with reasonable efficiency.
Are they already using it?
author: Hayk Manoyan
Are they already using it?
author: Hayk Manoyan
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