Ethereally Luminous

I would imagine you to be correct Mr Skeptic neither pepper spray nor taser would be much effective against someone who can just shoot you.

I've been doing a little research on the earth batteries of the 1800's. Very interesting. I managed to light a single LED light with a series of 8 cells consisting of sand, plastic cups, a graphite rod, and some alloy metal (I'm not sure of the exact composition). I set it up similar to an old wet cell; graphite to the alloy metal immersed in the sand which was in a plastic cup, making a total of 8 cells. The total reading on my multimeter was areound 6-8 volts, it didn't exactly remain constant. The LED did not shine brightly either, nonetheless light was still being emitted. When I tested the voltage entereing the LED though it was only around 3-4 volts. The current was extremely low, only around .1 mA. I can't really see any practical use for something like this, but I still find it fascinating that it actually works.

Yes pepper spray does burn like crazy it even burns your finger tips if gets on them, and speaking of tazers, I saw a novelty item at a fleamarket a couple days ago; it was a LED flashlight/ 1 Million Volt tazer, which sounds a little excessive and possibly dangerous to me. Nonetheless a tazer of that caliber should be effective enough, unless your perpetrator has an extreme amount of electrical resistance, and I'm pretty sure a normal human body conducts a current.

If all the poles are south why would the magnetic fluid want to travel at all? Do the particles in the fluid exhibit the same form of polarity as a standard magnet?

It does seem like no matter how many ideas for perpetual mechanisms there is always some inhibiting factor that balances the mechanism to a static phase. Don't give up though if you created a perpetual motion device you'd go down in history as the founder of The Law of Perpetual Motion .

Well I don't have a scientific answer but I do enjoy eating wild vegetation most of it feels pretty good in the GI tract. You have to be careful with what you eat though because some of the plants can make you sick, I've noticed that bitter ones are more likely to have a bad effect than ones that are neutral or sweet in taste. I was chewing on something the other day that started sending sharp needle like pains into the back of my throat and all over my tongue.

Thanks, is there a catalyst of some sort to produce more NaOH and release more CO2?

Would the change in conducting properties and molecules be permanent? And another idea, something more intricate. What if the capacitor is made with sulphur crystallized in the shape of a jar and the plates being used are good thin silver foil?

The topic title reminds me of something I cam across one day while playing with 9V batteries and tap water. I noticed that if i connected one terminal to the side of a glass jar and connect the other to a metal rod that is placed in the water, the result would be tiny amounts of bubbling..very tiny but noticeable. I never really bothered to research why. I just figured that the glass was able to carry the current somewhat and create small current of bubbles. Same effect in a metal container.

That sounds interesting. So then would a manually operated dynamo be more efficient than an electrostatic generator? What if the crank was connected to some gears to make the rotor of a dynamo or an electrostatic machine spin faster than normal human achievment? I even like the idea of strapping a voltage multiplier to it and connecting the multiplier to an induction coil? Or is that too much...or even plausible?

What if you make a crude capacitor out of a plastic bottle and some foil, maybe ? will the plastic melt after it's been charged too much?

The whimhurst machine was just one example there are better designs. I am interested in ways of storing electricity by manual powered machines, if a Leyden jar can store a lethal charge, could there possibly be an elaborate method of using the electric charge for something more practical?

Do you think a series of capictors or leyden jars would help to recharge the batteries faster ?

Is there any reason why a battery couldn't be charged by a simple hand powered electrostatic generator such as a Whimhurst machine?

I like the suggestion of chromatography, I guess convenient isn't the best word...simplest methods would be more accurate. So for column chromatography would acidified water be an adequate solvent for the amino acids? What would be a good adsorbent?