And wouldn't it electricute anyone in the water at the time?
201828
Because the ocean is fricking huge.  The electricity dissipates.  So if you happen to be swimming nearby, you'll probably get fried a bit, but if you're miles away, you won't even notice.
526781
There have been proposals and designs for wave-generated electricity.  It is not the same as dams and is more difficult because of the variability of the wave motion.  I think the reason it hasn't  been done is that the mechanisms are expensive for the amount of power that can be obtained.
225497
Yes, it is possible for lightning to strike water.  It happens all the time.  Lightning is the result of a difference in potential between two bodies.  When the potential is great enough, electricity jumps from the negatively charged body to the positively charged body.  The two bodies can be a cloud and a tree, a cloud and the ground or a cloud and water or from one cloud to another.  Therefore, lightning can be cloud to ground, cloud to cloud or even within a cloud.  What happens when the lightening bolt strikes the water is that at the immediate point of the strike, the temperature of the water instantly reaches the boiling point.  Given the extreme temperature of a lightning bolt and the extreme charge, I would suspect that not only is steam formed but a plasma is also likely formed at the immediate point of the strike.  As to what happens to any biological life at the point of the strike, it would depend on how near they are to the strike.  The closer they are to it, the more likely that they could be killed by the sudden change in temperature and potential.
318655
Well if you passed a large current through the ocean and you made the water a positive charge, and you threw in a magnetic asteroid rock that also had a positive charge it would not go into the water at all but shoot back into space or hover over the water depending on its weight and acceleration figure.! If the rock was heavy enough so that gravity outweighed the magnetic microcosmic charges between the rock and the ocean electromacnect fields would be surrounding the rock along with air, kinda like a mini lightning storm, or those glass balls with electricity inside and you put you fingers to and the electricity moves. Anyway when it does go down it will part the ocean so much so that not only would it be an bioscopic disaster for all beach dwelling bionic creature, it could also cause tidal waves, melting of the snow gaps and thus global warming, and a hole in the atmosphere. Im afraid the consequences of throwing that rock in would be devastating! Please Dont do it! And dont try it at home aswell! If you must go overseas and throw it in someone elses ocean! Heidi
115089
that sounds dangerous.  someone could suffocate.
502246
Lol, probably if you hooked it up to a turbine or something (though I doubt you could power all that much from it!).\n\nOf course, the water board would come round and have a word with you if you were using water constantly...\n\nAs Answers has a 'no chatting' policy I can't actually ask you questions, so I'll assume that you are living at your parents or something hence the free water.  Or maybe you are on a fixed bill.\n\nFor the former your parents will kill you, for the later the water board will kill you.
397217
Yes.....apply an electric current to salt water...I think this is the actual commercial method.
594670
The electrical discharge instantly spreads out over a large surface area of the conductor. Which is sea water. The amperage instantly diffuses over a large area sparing the fish.
484509
it floats!  water won't enter the boat if it floats on top of the water?
996
I would say it is possible by serious computer modders.\n\nYou CANNOT submerge electronics in distilled water and still have them work. There are tons of chemicals and other oils on the surfaces of the computer that will introduce salinity and conductivity into water. Distilled water doesn't matter in the least.
82820
All the electrical parts are inside the dryer and can only shock you if submerged in water.  Don't go trying this, could be dangerous to your health.
521599
Yes and a tremendous amount of energy is released by the bursting of the bubble (note this is BURSTING rather than simply dividing the bubble)\n\nObjective evidence of this puzzled Victorian engineers for years- their hardended bronze propellers on ocean going liners would fail catastrophically with evidence of melting and severe attack...the root cause being the highly turbulent water created by the more effecient propeller design resulting in bursting bubbles and therby large amounts of energy.\n\nIt's not easy to do and a real problem in certain industrial environments- cavitation pumps used in moving ceramic slips/slurries display similar failures.
53133
If you could get your arms around one--probably not still.\n\nSome people may think this is possible, by saying that fishing nets can strangle an animal. This may be partially true, but the reason why whales, dolphins and other marine mammals die in nets is because of suffacation--unable to get to the surface to breathe air.
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Those 'oxygen enriched water' machines a scam. They are a way to take money off stupid people.\n\nNo, the human body can not absorb the oxygen present in water. Well, that's not quite true. You could absorb the oxygen in water if you breathed it in. Then you would drown. But if you are just drinking the water or bathing in it you can never absorb the oxygen in it.
543068
The only way that could work was if the battery was not working due to lack of water.  Adding water won't help without charging the battery but if it was barely low enough it might help spread out the electrolytes allowing the car to start.
663580
Your question is theoretical and therefore all answers you receive will be theoretical.  I would think that even if it were for a split second, you would feel some kind of pain.  Of course, if you're floating around in space unprotected, you'd be dead before you got there.
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What you are proposing violates occupational safety regulations unless you've received the proper training and permits. Keep in mind that getting an electric shock from touching charged water is extremely dangerous because water reduces the skin's resistance to electricity, especially if you have salts dissolved in it. 35 mA is 3.5 times the minimum requirement to send a heart into fibrillation. Given the high voltage and water combination, there is no question that your body's resistance would be low enough to draw the full current limit.\n\nThat said, an arc is when you create a bright plasma conducting path. Dissolving bicarb in the water will make the *water* conduct instead, and load down (short) the HV, suppressing its voltage. You'll likely just heat the water that way. Your best bet is to use distilled water. Give the electrodes sharp points to enhance the electric field near the points. Bring the electrode close enough underwater, and you'll get your arc. Note that arcs create high pressure, and the water may splash out of the container and electrocute you.