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  • This is so much cooler than a lava lamp :-)

  • Spencers novelty store here it comes ! lol

  • lol at that when that day comes crude oil would be history ..... more like cooking oil to me

  • and lava lamps

  • or make the most boring game of pong ever

  • One day we won't have oil companys, hopefully.

  • @dujl we are far to dependant... we will always need it, even in small quantity's.

  • this could be used to clean your rooms air

  • or as a kick ass new kind of lava lamp...

  • @squidmanlol ahaha..

  • rain does exactly the same big droplets let off small positively charged droplets that actually defy gravity.....until they hit another falling droplet ...all rrelates to tesla energy electrons all around us .

  • :3 omg this was the first channel i ever subscribed to! i sooo love all the nerdy info!! i wish every1 would watch this and start inventing cool and usefull stuff!

  • check out nurdrage, hes got a pretty great channel if youre into chemistry

  • I love all these quaint quirks of the universe. We know they exist, we just dont know how usefull they are yet.

    Like all those renaissance scientists showing Rich aristocrats static electricity build up and giving everybody little shocks.

  • Oh Shelly...your a naughty spammer;)

  • This may be useful for keeping time as well.

    It could also possibly help give us more of the idea of time as a fourth dimension.

  • how? (ur second statement)

  • Water has certain properties which I used to refer to in my teenage years back in the 60's as "tempo dynamic". Supposedly, all matter has this proposed property, but some, such as this molecule of hydrogen and oxygen, may tend to be more observable. It seems time, as a dimension, is much more than a measurement and it may be one of the properties of gravitation, for example. Water may help the human mind to grasp and observe such tempo dynamic phenomenai. As in "water you talking about"...

  • ---(You are of topic you know that? Right, this could have been done by messaging not by commenting.)

    ---

    ---On topic, if any1 with knowledge in physics might see possibility in my theory pls let me know:

    ---Knowing that electronic charge + or - to be kept on the metal object/ lower wather bubble takes little to no amounts of electric energy, can the bounce between the 2 charges be used as a way to harness kinetic energy into electric energy?

  • You're not going to get anymore energy out than what you're putting in, and electric generators (kinetic energy into electric energy) are already very efficient. I mean, you *could* do it, but for no reason other than "it's difficult".

  • perpetual motion????

  • no it's not, this needs a constant flow of electricity

  • duuhh

  • devilry

  • yeas my ears ... no more pain .. thank you

  • Gosh...is that narrator that important?

  • How long will it bounce?

  • It will keep bounsing as long as the electrode stays turned on... for fuck sakes, problem solve. You don't even have to do that; the guy in the video fucking well tells you it's an electrode - so no fucking duh it needs electricity to work.

  • To have knowledge, is not the same as intelligence or wisdom.

    True intelligence & wisdom, comes with an understanding of humility.

    There is never a need to correct another person, with a derogatory manner or text.

    You must have had this done to you in-order to learn it.

    Inside you is the potential for much greater intelligence, use it wisely.

    Soon computers will out rank humans with intelligence & it will only be our humanity that separates us.

    Cursing others is so last millennium.

  • Have you taking a philosophy class or even studied t?

  • Greekman124 :) I have studied a little philosophy & I have been a quest lecture at QUT for 8 years for counselling and psychology students. However; that is not the point.

    I believe in the power of love & I know the power of communication.

    It's unfortunate that many people choose only to communicate love on an E.

    Well:) I send you my love & I have not taken an E for 9 years.

    We should all think of what type of internet footprint we want to leave.

    Love to you wherever you are.

  • what do you mean by "E"?

  • YirtakkiHippie :) as if you don't know that an E is short for ecstasy LOL

  • although im not too familiar with most drug references besides for the miracle cannabis. I thought so. I agree the friends I grew up with were very loving people, but seemed to only like to show it on E for the most part then were brought down so much the next couple of days it always seemed that the high they were returning to was from the closeness and caring they all were freely giving and receiving, but had a hard time getting it without the drug to "free" them.

  • I have never done E personally. But i could equate it to me having an amazing day where i just love people and want to hug and tell people i love them almost out of compulsion which i should probably not be afraid to do. Back to what you originally stated I read a great great book similar to what you were talking about which i think everyone should read called "Be Here Now" although I am still working on my ego at times lol.

  • YirakkiHippie :) I send you a big internet HUG :) As for your statement on continuous working on the ego, I totally understand that one. LOL

    Nice to chat to you again :)

  • Well said

  • Don't argue semantics with me. I don't need a lecture in your pseudo-philosophical cat poo to certify my right to patronize whoever I want on youtube.

    I've thought where you're thinking already, and it's ironic that you should bring up E. Went on an E binge last week.

    Don't mix E with DXM. I did. Now watch me craaaaaaaaaash. But yeah, ambulance...etc. whole nine yards.

  • WHAT?!

    You complainy dopes got rid of the girl? She sounded just fine. I quite liked her voice a lot actually.

  • Yeah, I quite liked her as well.

  • her voice was horrible, but these videos arent the same without it. i kinda miss that obnoxious, monotone voice.

  • this is gonna fucking rock, there gonna be making water that can stick to some kind of magnet cups.

  • this guy is so much better than the other girl

  • Why are we still helping the oil companies :(

  • lol they changed the narrator... comments do make a difference!!!

  • or even better, use this technology to create energy from H2O!

  • everything for the benefit of our benevolent masters at the oil company.

  • the guy sounds like he said elec - chode

  • Does this only work with water? If not then you've got a motor/piston.

    Woot.

  • How long would this process go? Doesn't this break the second law of thermodynamics?

  • Till the electrode lost its charge. No because it isn't indefinite.

  • I dunno, but I thought science was of the nature that if we observe something in reality that contradicts our ideas about nature, it's our ideas that conform around reality and not the other way around.

    I dunno, could just be me though. I could be wrong :P

  • wow, what a lame ass reply...please learn more before you make such statements...

  • i meant how currency is backed by gold and now it seems that currency is backed by oil and gold. i think thats what i meant :/

  • good bye lavalamp

  • nooooooooooooooo!

  • oh, there is a PRACTICAL application for this? I would have been happy setting this thing up on my desk.

  • Goodbye lava lamp, welcome miniature oil refinement factory :P

  • this was pretty random

  • oil is the new gold

  • its not that new:)

  • its called black gold

  • i hope we can ditch oil until that day comes

  • geothermal and wave power. fuck oil companys

  • interesting

  • fuck the oil companies

  • now thats cool

  • Some day in the future this could help oil companies!? We're out of oil in 30-years time!

  • In science time, some day usually means a few years, not a few decades.

  • My point remains.

  • In what sense does your point remain? If oil companies start doing this in 3 - 5 years, this technique can be used for another 30 - 40 years depending on what estimate you go by. How does your point still remain?

  • My point remains due to the phasing-out of oil products which will be rapid with the introduction of alternate fuels and new technology.

  • And when did you present this point? When you were asleep? I also still don't see how this won't help oil companies.

  • I didn't say it wouldn't help oil companies (but lets face it, nobody sensible wants to help them). My point is that it's pointless to stress that this discovery can help a technology we want to get rid off.

    It's like saying "And now we've found a great way to make led paint for toys!". Find a good way to use it, or don't say anything apart from the discovery.

  • no dought/

  • 30 years is optimistic, at best

  • I really hope Science perfects its Plasma Power Generator, because Oil is no use, it pollutes and we are running out too...

    Unless however this works with Plant oil, then it might work

  • actually it's stupid to burn oil - we can better use it for other things: plastics!

    Fusion energy is the future, but "green" freaks will and do everything in their power to undermine that technology... while still they use energy from burnt coal and oil.

  • Well the dream is, free, never ending power to everyone....

    Technology is our future, our species didnt become master of this Planet by use of Strength or Agillity...

  • I think you are mistaking Fusion for fission.

  • You should check the term FISSION in Wikipedia first...

    I'm talking about FUTURE, not present - namely: nuclear fusion.

  • Environmentalists don't oppose to fusion energy - they oppose fission energy.

    If we could actually be bothered to build some Thorium Reactors (ADS-reactors), that'd be fantastic as well.

  • Thorium Reactors? don't be crazy, those don't produce waste products the military can make WMD from.

    The sick irony is that uranium was probably pursued as a technology partly because of it's potential for weaponization.

    And worse, we know that this is also why states like Iran develop such technology too.

    Thorium though should be explored and invested in much more. it is much more abundant and safer.

  • ADS-reactors cannot have meltdowns, their waste has a short half-time compared to uranium, thorium is more abundant, and doesn't need lengthy and energy consuming purification processes to function in the reactor.

    I suspect it falls down to greed - building a thorium reactor is going to cost a lot of money. Furthermore, fission energy isn't seen as "the energy of the future".

    I really do wish corporations could see further than their own greedy hands.

  • If we had invested a fraction our military budget on fossil fuel reserve defence, on Thorium development etc, then we wouldn't need the reserves.. or the military spending.. we would have cheap green energy.

    The Earth is not over populated; people are over stupid.

    It is like an idiot contest for who can be the most short-termist, blind, damaging and wasteful for the next profit, then they exhibit waste on themselves as trophy;

    An idiot applauding another shovel of soil removed from their grave.

  • well said

  • what is wmd?

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  • One is linked with the other, so cutting funds for nuclear energy development and pushing it towards great and efficient (?!?) solar and wind power... and "CO2 science" is delaying our dream - cheap and safe FUSION POWER.

    We know that fission power is much safer than coal industry already - difference counted in thousands of lifes lost every year in coal mines, plants and while transporting the black gold all over the world.

  • You forget the need for a contingency plan. Fusion power is MANY years into the future, and until then we need something else to rely on. ADS-reactors, solar power and its derivatives (wind, water) would work perfectly as a stepping stone.

    And if solar power development can be further perfected, we may not need fusion at all! Let's face it - sooner or later we'd be worried about depleting water supplies and rising helium in the atmosphere anyway.

  • money for nuclear research goes to conventional fission, not fusion research. It's all to pad the pockets of corporations that pay off the govt.

    You have serious projects (I think ITER is an example?) where govts. make big commitments then want to cut funding later on.

    As for green or renewable energy that's not a bad idea at all. There are lots of places in the world that absolutely cannot afford a fusion reactor but can afford wind/solar/thermal/tidal/wave farms.

  • this would make an awesome lavalamp =D

  • Yea it would be.

  • 1 day oil companies should just die

  • Future... Oil companies... Hmm, I hope your kidding.

  • haha yeah i do to lol

  • ooor... we could stop pumpin crude oil and work at the alternatives... but seriously cool bouncing

  • I'm thinking that maybe we should deny oil companies the right to be the one to possess the technology to separate water from crude oil. Companies are artificial and not necessarily part of industry

  • Dude, this looks like it's looped, if I didn't know what I did about the properties of water, I would call this fake XD...

  • Hey Thats cool

  • This would make a cool lava lamp!

  • World's smallest lava lamp that is :)

  • looks cool

  • First :3

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