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Old Hard Drives = Free Electricity

Posted by timothy on from the gotta-have-a-hobby dept.

tylernt writes "You know all those old hard drives you have laying around? (Raise your hand if you still have RLL or MFM drives... yeah, I thought so.) Well, now there's something useful you can do with them (besides my personal favorite, shooting them): make electricity! While you're at it, you could do something more productive with that old lawnmower, too."

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  1. A Troll For Hire Post by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 0, Troll

    Customer: Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!
    Waiter: What do you expect, sir, we bought our soup from the corner shop!

    Customer: Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!
    Waiter: That's a very diplomatic way of putting it, sir. Shall I ask that Coon opposite you to leave?

    Customer: Waiter, there's a coon in my cock!
    Waiter: Never mind the coon! Get your cock out of my asshole, sir!

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  2. Website Refrenced by roseblood · · Score: 0, Troll

    Must be served from a MFM drive, it gaev up the ghost and the site is gone! Slashdot in effect.

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  3. What would be really cool.. by sTavvy · · Score: 0, Troll

    go back to the days before Hard drives, if we could use old Floppies to generate electricity that would be great.
    i can just see the power plant of the future, a wharehouse, just full of 5 1/4 disks!

    also is teh amount of electricity produced from the HDD directly proportional to the size of the HDD??