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This has already been done. You have two electrodes. One electrode is annular (ring-shaped) and is held at a high voltage. Water is blasted at high speed through the hole in this "donut" electrode. As the water jet breaks up into droplets, these droplets acquire electrical charge by induction. Then, the force of wind carries these charged droplets to a large, wire-mesh collection grid/electrode. This can generate potentials of millions of volts (but extremely small currents). Very large scale implementations of this device are possible.

It's the same basic idea behind Kelvin's Thunderstorm, which uses gravity instead of wind to seperate the charged water droplets.

For this idea to work, however, you need high wind speeds. The energy in this device comes from the wind. The wind must be forceful enough to push the water droplet away from the annular electrode (to which it is being attracted) onto the wire mesh.

Wind tubines have the advantage because they can work well in extremely low winds.

That's a rip off of the claims of Archimedes Plutonium. As usual, people in real life, like Archimedes Plutonium, are a lot funnier than satire.

It looks as if you haven't read the thread you pointed us to.

Now, I really did. My favorite quote from it is the part where Aaron Bergman notes, "I also hope that math people realize that us physicists only read Castro's papers for humor purposes."

The mathematicians (and abashed physicists) seem surprised by various techniques and idioms in the proof, but after some good-faith research, they find supporting documentation which they accept.

That's not what I see. What I see is that they figure out among themselves that some really non-standard usages of mathematical terminology happen in physics, and that whether you use "ln" or "log" to refer to the notion of a natural log might reflect where you went to school or what calculator you used...idle chit-chat, really.

And the "clincher" that you cite is a plea for manpower to analyze some possible proofs that will otherwise go unanalyzed, as the rest of the math community is also slavish to the idea of "if it's true, why hasn't it already been proven".

No, my "clincher" would be that a link to this appears on the same page as work by the illlustrious Archimedes Plutonium. Really, you just don't know how damning this is, do you?

I just read this first page (Introduction to 231Pu universe etc) and it is the biggest load of crap I've seen since creationism. I'm surprised the Swedish government allows the association of its TLD with this junk.

Why do I say this? I read the page, and see this guy making his claims. Where's his evidence? I scroll down some more waiting for the exposition to end and the science to start. Hmm, still none, still just more guff saying how clever the guy thinks he is. Whoops, it's the bottom of the page. Perhaps he should rename his site 'tabloidphysics.se'.

And the actual source material: He didn't actually say what his theory was, but I glark that he thinks the universe is an atom of plutonium, and the Milky Way is one of its electrons. Now, riddle me this. The universe has more than 94 galaxies. So, unless I've just busted his theory, I guess I haven't read far enough to reach the section where he rubbishes observational astronomy?

At long last, maybe Archimedes Plutonium will get the attention he deserves for his brilliant theories explaining how the entire universe is really a single atom of plutonium.

001 A picture introduction to the ONE ATOM PLUTONIUM EVERYTHING UNIVERSE, 231PU ATOM TOTALITY theory

Excerpt follows:

Note that the start of this website is the Atom Totality theory and the end of this website is sci.religion which is apt, for think of the website rankings not as linear but as a circle coming back around. So we start with the hard core most general of all sciences and the most easily verified of all sciences-- physics and like a circle we come around to the worship of physics in sci.religion. Below in chemistry I have a circular periodic table, so think of the rankings on this website as sci.physics at the top and coming full circle back around is sci.religion which is basically the worship of physics since God is 231Pu and the best bible is the best most up-to-date physics textbook.

Archimedes Plutonium?

Is that you?

I know you are asking for the oldest documented math problem, but do remember that the Great Library of Alexandria was burned down by an angry mob. That library housed most of the world's knowledge up until that point. So documentation of any super-old problem was probably destroyed in the fire.

By the way, a search on google for "oldest unsolved math problem" comes up with this page which states

PROOF OF THE INFINITUDE OF PERFECT NUMBERS (IPN). The IPN is either the second oldest, or the oldest unsolved problem of mathematics (debatable with the No Odd Perfect Number Problem), and this proof will easily evince anyone why it is one of the two oldest unsolved math problems.

So I guess the IPN is a contender.

GMD

Wolfram is wrong! Einstein is wrong too! And newton also! They're all wrong!

All of the universe can be described as a single atom of plutonium.

http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwig Plutonium/.

UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.

Seriously, he's mildly amusing, but as whack jobs go, Chiu is strictly third-rate. I'm sure he wouldn't get any play if he wasn't basically offering free stuff to people who put banners on their site. Until something more interesting comes along, I'll stick with the classics, like McElwaine and Ludwig Plutonium.

ATOM.

-Archimedes Pootonium

I see that no one has mentioned the great Archimedes Plutonium (formerly Ludwig Von Plutonium). I'd better remedy the problem:

He was one of the great early Usenet crackpots; he used to frequent sci.physics and sci.math. He'd solved all of the great unsolved mathematical problems, and determined the ultimate nature of reality, and he always seemed a little upset that people were questioning his findings. (He came across as a real-life version of Ignatius Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces".)

His collected works are at: http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwig Plutonium/.

This link (http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwi gPlutonium/File226.html) points to his proof that the Universe/God is a gigantic Plutonium atom.

This link (http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwi gPlutonium/File216.html contains a hymn he wrote, which would look really good on any sort of Plutonium memorial:

Carbon in me, Carbon of Plutonium
Fill me with life anew
That I may love what thou dost love
And do what thou superdetermines me to do

Oxygen, Oxygen of Plutonium
Make me wholly thine
Take me to the Nucleus
Nucleosynthesis divine

I see that no one has mentioned the great Archimedes Plutonium (formerly Ludwig Von Plutonium). I'd better remedy the problem:

He was one of the great early Usenet crackpots; he used to frequent sci.physics and sci.math. He'd solved all of the great unsolved mathematical problems, and determined the ultimate nature of reality, and he always seemed a little upset that people were questioning his findings. (He came across as a real-life version of Ignatius Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces".)

His collected works are at: http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwig Plutonium/.

This link (http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwi gPlutonium/File226.html) points to his proof that the Universe/God is a gigantic Plutonium atom.

This link (http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwi gPlutonium/File216.html contains a hymn he wrote, which would look really good on any sort of Plutonium memorial:

Carbon in me, Carbon of Plutonium
Fill me with life anew
That I may love what thou dost love
And do what thou superdetermines me to do

Oxygen, Oxygen of Plutonium
Make me wholly thine
Take me to the Nucleus
Nucleosynthesis divine

I see that no one has mentioned the great Archimedes Plutonium (formerly Ludwig Von Plutonium). I'd better remedy the problem:

He was one of the great early Usenet crackpots; he used to frequent sci.physics and sci.math. He'd solved all of the great unsolved mathematical problems, and determined the ultimate nature of reality, and he always seemed a little upset that people were questioning his findings. (He came across as a real-life version of Ignatius Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces".)

His collected works are at: http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwig Plutonium/.

This link (http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwi gPlutonium/File226.html) points to his proof that the Universe/God is a gigantic Plutonium atom.

This link (http://www.newphys.se/elektromagnum/physics/Ludwi gPlutonium/File216.html contains a hymn he wrote, which would look really good on any sort of Plutonium memorial:

Carbon in me, Carbon of Plutonium
Fill me with life anew
That I may love what thou dost love
And do what thou superdetermines me to do

Oxygen, Oxygen of Plutonium
Make me wholly thine
Take me to the Nucleus
Nucleosynthesis divine

Don't have any design ideas, but the name for the structure is easy: the Archimedes "Ludwig" Plutonium Memorial, to honor the Atom Totality Theory and a pioneer Usenet Kook.

Shoot the moon? Hell, says Prof. Alexander Abian, why not just blow it up?

Sadly, Crank.net says he died of a heart attack. His homepage is still up at at Iowa U., and a fan has archived THE ABIAN LIST. See the gumption of a man who named the mass of the Cosmos at the big bang after himself (scroll down a bit). Finally, see the greatness of the man reflected in his exchanges with James "Kibo" Parry and Archimedes Plutonium.