On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:27:22 -0500, John Doe wrote:

Alan Erskine wrote:
Current flow has nothing to do with gravity.

How do you know this ? most wires on earth are perpendicular to earth's gravity.

Yes, I don't think a long enough wire has ever been built on earth know if it
does.



But if you had a long electrical wire running from moon to earth, perhaps the
electrons would be accelerated by earth's gravity and impact earth at
tremendous speeds :-)

Maybe thats the answer to cold fusion?


Seiously though, in a theoretical scenario with power production on the moon
with a long wire back to earth, would the wire absolutely have to be 2
conductors, or could they devise a way to send the charged electrons on a one
way trip to earth ?

What happens when the moon runs out of electrons?

Without electrons there cant be no more atoms, right? So would this destroy the
moon?