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Making water run uphill with lasers






Bandanna

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Thats pretty awesome. For the future.. I call lasers and magnets. lasers and magnets are about as cool as it gets IMO lol
 
KiLLrB

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Interesting story! The possibilities it has for the computer industry look promising :)
 
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KiLLrB said:
Interesting story! The possibilities it has for the computer industry look promising :)
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Oh yea... just a thought but if laser etching water moving cooling systems start becoming a standard... does that mean more diodes for us?
 
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What is stopping them from putting a turbine under each water"fall", to spin a generator?
 
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Gah! I shouldn't have spilled my brilliance! No one else could have thought of such a thing!
 
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Not to be a killjoy, but that waterfall picture is an illusion. I'm sure this only works with miniscule amounts of water, and it's only moving at 3 cm/s. You'd get orders of magnitude more power by sticking a turbine in a moving stream...
 
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Curiously_Coherent said:
No Kidding!

The link below describes the process. And before anyone cries foul, the image used at the beginning of the story is an optical illusion the blogger put in there for "illustrative purposes". LOL

Wow, 2 kewl laser stories in one day.

Making Water Run Uphill, With Lasers - Water flowing uphill - Gizmodo

Cheers, :beer:CC
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Dvorhagen said:
Not to be a killjoy, but that waterfall picture is an illusion. I'm sure this only works with miniscule amounts of water, and it's only moving at 3 cm/s. You'd get orders of magnitude more power by sticking a turbine in a moving stream...
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:angel::whistle:
 
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Curiously_Coherent said:
No Kidding!

The link below describes the process. And before anyone cries foul, the image used at the beginning of the story is an optical illusion the blogger put in there for "illustrative purposes". LOL

Wow, 2 kewl laser stories in one day.

Making Water Run Uphill, With Lasers - Water flowing uphill - Gizmodo

Cheers, :beer:CC
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Dvorhagen said:
Not to be a killjoy, but that waterfall picture is an illusion. I'm sure this only works with miniscule amounts of water, and it's only moving at 3 cm/s. You'd get orders of magnitude more power by sticking a turbine in a moving stream...
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Brilliant observation, Kojak.
 
BShanahan14rulz

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sounds like capillary action to me too :thinking:

And we already use capillary action to cool computers.
 
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