[RndTbl] water clock

John Lange john.lange at bighostbox.com
Wed Nov 19 15:41:46 CST 2003


The project you describe is here (though it uses lemon's instead of salt
water its the same idea):

http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/lemon.html

And there is even an official "Lemon Power Website" (the Internet has
everything doesn't it?):

http://members.aol.com/dswart/index.html

Regards,

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On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 13:38, millward wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone out there might
> be able to tell me how these water clocks work.
> All you do is fill it up with mildly salty water,
> and that's what it runs on. The one I've got
> has been keeping good time for about 5-6 days
> now. Once in a while a little bubble comes up, so
> it must be producing some kind of waste gas.
> I'd like to build my own circut based on whatever
> devices run this clock, just for fun. Would anyone
> know what kind of electronics run on water?
> And where I could get them?
> I didn't buy my clock through the net, but it's selling
> at:
>   http://www.computergear.com/waterclock.html
> All the site says about how it runs is:
> "The fuel cell extracts electrons from the electrolyte
> forming a steady stream of electrical current that
> drives the clock."  
>     That's all very well, but it doesn't tell me
> what the name of the fuel cell is, where I can
> get them, and how I can build a curcit based
> on the fuel cell's power. 
>   
> 
> 
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