Recent content by pinchharmonic

there's at least one company that sells these "earthing" or "grounding" pads that are connected to the ground port in the wall socket. Allegedly they help "discharge" human bodies, which generally have too much charge, causing inflammation in the body. whether or not charge in the body causes...

assumptions: you can use the 4th card, but it is face down always you don't have to face up all the cards, but just at most 3 like rule states don't have to show 3 cards, can show less partner must sort all cards 1-27, forget about the 1-24 if 4 cards are shown, turn it into a 4-bit...

thanks, can you explain how the energy is extracted out of that reaction per electron produced? I'm still a bit confused what exactly is causing the potential difference between the terminals and I'm assuming earlier you meant the electron was created (or cleaved) from the atom which resulted...

evil bunny, thanks that nailed it for me conceptually now. Now I want to understand a bit more on the physics behind the potential differences, whether from batteries, or from a generator. From a generator it seems to be since electricty and magnetism are tied, you can use that to your...

thanks trand. now I'm curious what happens in a DC circuit when there is a capacitor? even if the electrons move slowly, they end up stuck at one end of the capacitor wall building up a negative charge until they repel back right? what if a city was powered by DC, so the outlet had a + and -...

thanks evil bunny, that made a lot of sense. So in other words the ground is just completing the circuit. I guess I have to do more research now on batteries for example, because, as you pointed out before, I incorrectly assumed the ground on a battery is no different then the ground we walk...

thanks russ, yea I read another old thread (which you were a contributor to), with the analogy of a pipe with ping pong balls, that makes a lot of sense to me. Now I'm trying to understand the DC generator concept that someone mentioned in that thread, where electrons are drawn from the...

Evil Bunny, This came up in another thread from Ivan Seeking btw, the short answer: Electrons that flow in dc circuits come from ground - the earth. This was implied but I don't think anyone ever said it. The world's economy now depends on good ground rods. I always found the drift...

Evil Bunny, Thanks for the answer, so in other words it's like having a long glass tube with sand and u let the sand slide one way, then the other way 60 times per second? I guess that makes more sense with the turbine generating energy because it's generating an alternate current in that...

i'm trying to visualize what you mean by the same that go in one side, come in the other side. say you have a wire with a high voltage at one end, and then grounded literally into the ground at the other. my assumption is that electrons flow from the ground to the high voltage end, so in this...

russ, when you say resisting that flow I can only think of putting a resistor on the wire that generates heat. i guess i have a more fundamental question then, what is the generator actually creating as its final product. how would it store that energy anyway? is it creating a huge battery?

thanks but then how do you extract energy from that closed loop

Hi, Originally I had a question about a wire that allows electrons to move to higher voltage. I could not figure out why the wire does not lose electrons to the point it runs out. The question was answered on these forums when someone mentioned salt bridges, which lead me to watch some video...