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Energy From Vibrations
JN writes "Now here's a nifty invention. What started off as a Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Navy to a MIT professor has turned out to become a great mechanism that harnesses running machines' minute vibrations into energy. The possibilities are limitless. Aside from the obvious, imagine the ultimate cellphone - one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates, hence promising extended talktimes, and giving operators all the more reasons to get their customers to use their devices. How cool is that? Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes?
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On a Harley block these could power my Microwave!
I know plenty of women that get energy from vibrating objects.
Yes! A phone that charges itself when it rings or vibrates.
And next, we can build a machine that, when slowing down from drag, uses that potential energy to cause another part of itself to move faster. Then, it would never stop. We could task it to make electricity to power... everything!
From cars that have more electricity at the end of the trip than when they started, to bicycles that coast faster when going uphill, the possibilities are... perpetual!
fifth sigma, inc.
> one that charges the battery every time it rings/vibrates
I sure hope you are just making a joke. If you're not being deliberately stupid, I impressed by your natural talent.
Anything that obtains energy from vibrations or sound is going to dampen those vibrations or muffle the sound [same thing really]. If phones can save energy like this, maybe you can levitate by pulling your own hair up. In fact, I recommend you try this.
http://rareformnewmedia.com/
Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes?
;-)
And I thought there was just *one* of them G thingys that needed vibration.
And now its gonna be mandatory?! Every 2 mins?
ahem
This is one slashdot story I'll need to read at -1, just for the vibrator trolls
I dunno about this -- my girlfriend seems to have no energy whatsoever left after I apply vibrations to her for 10-15 minutes straight...
Please. Everyone should make basic errors in logical reasoning in their submissions, that way, we'll never talk about anything else. Slashdot will be ruined. My evil plans will come to fruition! Ah ha ha ha ha HA HA HA!
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
12 inch vibrator! Save the environment while you pleasure yourself!
"In mathematics, it's not enough to read the words -- you have to hear the music"
Hemos is like a lot of sci-fi fans: he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on.
:)
That's the most concise description of many sci-fi fans I think I've ever seen. I think I'll have to file that one away for future use.
[b.belong('us') for b in bases if b.owner() == 'you']
"Unless the phone happens to be one of those nifty wrist-based one, the answer is no, this won't work."
:)
1: Momentum powered wrist cell phone
2: Porn
3: !!!!!!!!!
4: Profit! (or at least unlimited power!)
Damn thermodynamics... always holding us back.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Imagine an energy scavenger like this inside a standard PC keyboard. You could power Intels hungriest processors using Windows and Ctrl-Alt-Del...
"I don't know why we didn't see it before", stated a young lab assistant at the M.I.T center for alternative energy. "I wonder if Thomas Edison truely realized the potential in his invention."
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
More importantly, let's hope for commercial windmill farms that don't kill birds.
better yet, a windmill farm that converts the birds it kills into energy.
If you mod me down the terrorists will have won