Here's why champagne bubbles might affect the future of energy

Here's why champagne bubbles might affect the future of energy
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When you pop that champagne bottle next week, chalk it up to a science experiment.

That process you see just after the bottle opens, with large bubbles overtaking smaller ones, is the same process that occurs in a power-generating turbine. A new study in The Journal of Chemical Physics describes researches simulating the champagne bottle effect.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.