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stargateengineer
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I've seen a little bit about the gravity light. I think it works in a simple way, a weight at a certain height has gravitational potential energy depending on how far the weight will fall, this quantity represents the total energy we have at our disposal to power a light. Now we normally think of something falling very quickly, releasing all that potential energy in less than a second. But that is the ingenious aspect of the gravity light. The inventors figured, why not slowly release that gravitational potential energy over a period of time, at a rate which will be just enough to power a light at a reasonable brightness for a reasonable amount of time. Fascinating!
I would like to delve in a little bit into the physics that makes this possible. The mathematics involved. The thing that really pops out at me is the idea of slowly releasing the energy of a process that would normally be an explosion of energy over a very short time.
I would like to delve in a little bit into the physics that makes this possible. The mathematics involved. The thing that really pops out at me is the idea of slowly releasing the energy of a process that would normally be an explosion of energy over a very short time.