there (like
gold in Ft. Knox?).
Or has our government been lying to us again? Maybe they're out?
Or can they synthesize ohms out of basic elements, and what are those elements?

According to many of my own experiments, resistors are made of a white
smoke and when they are overloaded, the white smoke leaks out and the
resistor doesn't work any more. Not to worry: there is lots of white
smoke in the world: maybe some of you are smoking it right now.
However, I must go: my osculator has stopped working.

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Radioman390 wrote:

Trillions and trillions of megohms distributed through the civilized world
means our natural supplies will soon dry up. Now I did a Googler search anmd
ASK JEEVES too but I couldn't find out where these ohms are mined, but they've
got to run out soon. What if our National Strategic Reserve of OHMS (NSRO) is
depleted, or worse, attacked by terrorists? Our civilization would be doomed.
And can we be sure that the ohms stored in the reserve are actually there (like
gold in Ft. Knox?).

Actually we have a surplus of resistance, it's generated by all teenagers. :-)

Geoff.

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Radioman390 wrote:

Nearly every device that uses electricity has internal components like
capaicitors,. transformers and resistors. Billions upon billions of devices
have been made and each one contains resistors.
A resistor, of course, contains RESISTANCE, which is measured in ohms.

Now figure this: billions of devices, and let's say each contains 20 resistors,
with an average resistance of 1 megOHM (million ohms, which is a lot as far
as resistance goes, especially these days), which means 20 megOHMS per device.
Add to that the resistance distributed in wires across the world, and we're
talking pretty big numbers, guys.

Trillions and trillions of megohms distributed through the civilized world
means our natural supplies will soon dry up. Now I did a Googler search anmd
ASK JEEVES too but I couldn't find out where these ohms are mined, but they've
got to run out soon. What if our National Strategic Reserve of OHMS (NSRO) is
depleted, or worse, attacked by terrorists? Our civilization would be doomed.
And can we be sure that the ohms stored in the reserve are actually there (like
gold in Ft. Knox?).
Or has our government been lying to us again? Maybe they're out?
Or can they synthesize ohms out of basic elements, and what are those elements?

Of course, nobody has looked into the environmental effects of these ohms once
they go into the recycling cycle. Could ohms in our water supply be the cause
of cancer? Or dementia? Or leprosy?

Those of you who have many radios and TVs and other electronic devices should
thank your lucky stars you bought before the prices spiraled upward.

But all this brings me to the point of this post. Ohm';s law tells us E-IR, but
if there is no voltage(E), then the I and R must be zero as well (at least one
of them, anyway). So if there is nobody trying to measure R (by applying
voltage to the circuit under test), does that mean that there is no R unless
someone is looking for it? It sort of disappears unles you want it. Could this
principle be used to feed hungry mouths around the world and thus bring about
a world peace?

This is a philosophical question just like the tree falling in the forest
enigma. Help, please!



Kind if reminds me of the story about the queer electron, going around
blowing fuses!