Should prisoners generate electricity or de-salinate water?

Question

In areas where there is mainly salt water.
Chained to bikes fitted with alternators; wired to electrolysis tanks separating water.

Answer 1

No, lets just top um save the paper work.

or treat them like people who have made mistakes. you know but fot the grace of god there goes i

Answer 2

You might be interested in a dynamotor. That is a unit containing a motor and a generator. Many military radios from World War 2 used 12 volt power from trucks and used a dynamotor to generate 250 volts to activate the vacuum tubes. You seem to be interested in making 33,000 volts from 1000 volts at 5,000 watts. This would work, but the most current you could draw from it would be 5/33 , that is 0.151515 Amps at 33,000 volts if it were 100% efficient. As everyone else pointed out you can not get better than 100% efficiency, and in practice dynamotors were more like 30% so the maximum current you could get would be about 1/20 amp. Do not try it without professional help because 33,000 volts will jump about 2 inches through air and 1/20 amp is more than enough to kill someone.

Answer 3

the main method of Desalination, Reverse Osmosis, uses a huge amount of power. I saw this demonstrated at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney Australia once. I suggest you try it. Get a motor car, any car, and hook all its lights and horn up to a DC generator hooked to a bicycle. hop on, start pedaling see how long you can sustain what is in fact a small load, compared to what you are suggesting

you will realise then that you are talking moonshine .

And besides, de salination is going up a blind alley

Answer 4

A person cannot generate enough electricity to even pay for his own food at the present cost of electricity, even if that is all he does all day every day.

Answer 5

It would be easier to hook up all the treadmills, exercise bikes, and stairsteppers in the gym to generators. People would be paying to produce electricity/ Think of the profit margin.

It's my idea don't you all try to steal it.

Answer 6

Let the lifers generate the electricity to eliminate those on death row a little more quickly.

Answer 7

chain gang the lot and make them cut the roadside grass and dig dikes save a fortune in council tax

Answer 8

Any labour that generates money towards the victims should be welcome, and the state of our roads would be much better if we used chain gangs like the Americans.

Answer 9

Only for their own use. Anything else will be labelled as slave labour.

Answer 10

yes