On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:48:37 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:14:54 +0700, Bruce In Bangkok
wrote:

The marvels of electrolyses. You can do the same thing with a lemon, a
galvanized screw and a piece of copper wire.

Yes, it is easy to make a battery out of a lemon. It's not a very
good battery however. That's because it was designed to be a lemon,
not a battery, same problem with a sea water battery. It's
interesting to see guys working on things like that, and every once in
a while something useful comes out of it.

You did notice that his experiments were all with little model boats.
when he get something 15 feet long that does 15 miles an hour it will
be far more worthy of notice.


Cheers,

Bruce
(bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom)