Candle Power

[Humpty]

Gonna try this tomorrow.Very interesting!

Or is it a trick?

See what the battery and power companies don't want you to find out!

I'll show you how to generate electricity using two candles.

Candle power link

[Glenn]

... Or is it a trick?

It's a trick but well done. Letting the wires loop off screen in the light bulb demo will incite critics to claim there's a battery off screen, then they pull the loops into view near the end of the demo with the motor (the battery for that is probably in the pad it sits upon). Brilliant!

 

There is a way to generate electricity with a candle but the ends of the wires have to be heated by the flame ... and the voltage and current will barely register on a meter.

[rridgely]

I think your right glenn.

I'm by no means an electrician but why would lighting the candle do anything when its not even touching it? If it works than its really weird..

[New_Age]

That could be done. I mean come on think. Something within Wax of a candle has to obtain something

[hazelnut]

Stearic acid is a type of fatty acid that comes from animal fats, it is one of the ingredients of candles.

 

Here is some heavy info on some chemical tests -

 

Lactose monohydrate was melt agglomerated in an 8-l high shear mixer using stearic acid, polyethylene glycol (PEG) 3000, and a mixture of stearic acid and glycerol monostearate as meltable binders. Electrostatic charging during processing at relative air humidities of 35 and 75%, respectively, was estimated from the voltage of a monitoring probe inserted into the mixer. Stearic acid produced a high level of electrostatic charges, whereas PEG 3000 gave rise to a markedly lower level. Addition of glycerol monostearate to the stearic acid reduced the level of electrostatic charges. A correlation was found between the resistivity of the binder and the level of electrostatic charges in the material. With the stearic acid and the binder mixture, the level of electrostatic charges was higher at a low air humidity. The amount of adhesion to the bowl was found to depend on the level of electrostatic charges.

 

taken from

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=A...f6d1c0726504de9

 

On a lighter note -

 

In colonial America the early settlers discovered that they were able to obtain a very appeasing wax by boiling the berries from the bay-berry shrub. This wax created a very sweet smelling and good burning candle; however the process of making the bayberry wax was very tedious and tiresome.

[Capman]

Funny how the guy always has one of his hands under the table as he lights the second candle, and also has one hand under the table as he blows out the first candle!