Post by silverdragon on Jun 13, 2017 10:33:58 GMT
1. A significant heat difference could cause an eruption by just placing a "straw" between the layers.
Erm... No.
The water in the straw is at the same pressure differential as the water Outside the straw.... so what would make the water move?.
There is a thing about deep water, especially calm water, it "stratifies", in that it creates layers.
This is a problem with hot weather and lakes, the top of the lake will warm up enough to go swimming in..
But the depths of the lake stay cold.
Its in layers, and this I had to study before I dug my own pond, as in how deep can I go before it starts to create those layers.
The ideal depth to not hot those layers is about 6ft.
If you go down to say 8ft, the bottom of a pond then will be a lot colder than the top.. warm water rises, and stays at the top of any body of water.
This is why there are problems with summer swimmers using Lakes... especially calm water lakes and ponds.
They dive down and "Hit" that cold layer of water, anything below say 8ft down, and its an almost instant hit of Hypothermia, the same as the hit of say an Atlantic Deep water fishing vessel would have if someone went overboard, it can kill in seconds, because on hot days the change from almost sun-stroke to hypothermic conditions is so sudden the whole body shuts down?..
So why not swimming pools and Fish ponds?.
They are deeper aint they?.
Yeah, but they have filters and pumps.
My own pond recirculates water at different depths, I suck water from the bottom drain and feed it back in at mid-level, to create a circulating mix, and have an air supply bubbler on that vent that takes some of that water up to the surface.
On days of heavy wind, lakes and large ponds will move the water about and create currents.
So the straw thing?.. unless you start some kind of flow in that straw, it will not move, because the pressure differential between top and bottom is exactly the same as the outside of the straw water.
If the warm water at a base of a large body of water starts to rise tto the top of its own accord, its rising, because warm water rises... a straw on its own wont help, unless you create that current.
This is easy to test, get a deep lake on a calm day where there is a known measured difference between surface water and deep water...
Probably a day when it has just turned very cold and the deeper water will probably be warmer than the water at the top.
Drop in a very long say 30ft drainpipe and let it rest just under the level of the top of the water...
If there is any movement, you will see it rising up through the pipe and flowing out of the top...
I will place the bet that there is no movement, other than that already occurring elsewhere in the lake.
This whole thing is how lakes create natural currents, the heating and cooling of the top layer and the difference between that and the deeper layers.
Wind power is also a huge contributory to that effect...
But as for just using a straw?..
If there was any effect from using that, dont you think we would know by now and be using that as a source of power?.. "Free" power?..
3. Thrown epsom salts will convert CO2 to oxygen, with flashes of light.
My B.S. meter exploded with this one. If epsom salts could do this easily, every drug store would be a fireworks display.
My B.S. meter exploded with this one. If epsom salts could do this easily, every drug store would be a fireworks display.
I have some epsom salts here in my house... just a moment...
[returns from experiment]
I just threw some in a food mixer and span them to grind them up a bit and gave them a heave into mid-air... nuffin' happened?.. what, did I get sold duds?..
I agree with your doubts.