relaxation oscillator develops mechanical thrust

[minorwork]

This nano motor was pronounce the smallest in the world in April 2005.

This be a small relaxation oscillator, or is called that. The use of surface tension and current flow result in a rather powerful thrust for the electrical energy used. Size wise it is quite powerful. From the article: http://www.livescience.com/technology/0 ... motor.html

If it could be scaled up to the size of an automobile engine, it would be 100 million times more powerful than a Toyota Camry's 225 horsepower V6 engine, the researchers say.

The two spheres are liquid metal. How hot is plasma again? Is this somehow an area of speculation as to a mechanism behind pulsars?

Sounds like some hype there on the power equivalence by size.

[mharratsc]

It seems like they are using electromagnetic force to over come electrostatic force (surface tension), and calling this a capacitive reaction- not sure if that is really correct... but ehh.

What I want to know is- if they are going to call this an electric motor, what manner of transmission are they going to use to apply the kinetic energy into work?

And yeah- making these droplets the size of a V6 IC engine is a bit fanciful, I think

Mike H.