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Message #13130



To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Andrew Hooper andrew@best.net.nz
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:04:22 -0400
Subject: Re: WCRG? (plus info on WCRG events)



> Just as a thought, there is a power system that opperates on water,
actually
> there are 3, one is used an a watch and is a simple system but provides
> minimal
> power to run the watch.
>
> Another is used in a tourch, this one uses salt water and will die after a
> certian
> amount of time, it was designed as an emergencey tourch for the military
and
> im not to sure what happend to it.
>
> The same system above is also used in a form of ELT, this was trialed in a
> life preserver, im not to sure if this went into production or not, but it
> was also
> a salt water power plant and powered the emergencey location transponder.
>
> So it is possible to make a real Aquavour but it also would be inpractical
> and
> expensive, i think one of the electrodes were made from platinum, not to
> sure
> about the other.
>
> Regards
> Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JVernonM@aol.com
> To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
> Date: Saturday, April 08, 2000 6:17 AM
> Subject: Re: WCRG? (plus info on WCRG events)
>
>
> >In a message dated 4/7/00 12:51:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> Synet@Psynet.net
> >writes:
> >
> >> Maybe one of the first, water based, BEAM bots actually was a
aqua"vore".
> >Sounds like an excuse to me. I've only seen one (and it was a drawing) of
a
> >"bot" in the BEAM games booklet and it did not consume water. I've seen
> >photos of 3 others none of which worked adequately. None of them consumed
> >water either. I have seen one that worked, and was sealed in a florescent
> >light fixture, it also, did not feed on water. If names don't mean what
> they
> >translate to, then why use Greek at all? Why bother with correcting the
> >newbie about "phototropism and photophobism"? If you do have a mechanism
> >which operates on water power, I'd really love to see it, and I'm sure so
> >would the Dept. of Energy.
> >
> >> But since then, "aquavore" has basically taken the name for any BEAM
> devise
> >> that is made to work in the water.
> >Even though it literally translates into water eater? This is just
> >stubbornness and an unwillingness to change. Even if the change is to
> correct
> >an error. Maybe it would go over better if someone in the inner circle
> >thought of it. So be it, let the water eaters loose.
> >
> >
> >See ya,
> >Jim
> >http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
> >ICQ# 55657870
>

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