Experimenting without real purpose is expensive
100 car batteries wired in parallel! at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywaTX-nLm6Y
You forgot molten glass, molten salts!
How do you charge 100 batteries? 50,000 Amperes at 12 volts is 6,000,000 Volt*Amperes. 6000 KiloWatts
14 cents per KiloWattHour would be $0.14*6000 = $840/hour if you have a 6 MegaWatt 12 volt DC charger,
(I am tired, so check my numbers. Just trying to indicate. Maybe an electric vehicle charging station)
I could have done it with one battery, machining the test pieces and doing the scaling and analysis calculations. Some macro lenses, records and sharing data. Are you doing vaudeville or science and engineering? Any welder will make sparks and heat wires, even explode them. Scale models and digital twins work.
Weld or machine your test pieces first. You know the resistance of the wires, the internal resistance of the batteries, and can measure for the test pieces. Hard to experiment efficiently without a plan. And a plan is focused on potential uses. That would mean interactive communities, good record keeping, better sharing of results, proposals, costs and potential uses.
There are hundreds of thousands of high schools and colleges in the world, and more people working with electricity and magnetism and computers.
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
