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Hamster-Powered Night Light
An anonymous reader writes "Though Skippy the Hamster powers this night light by running on his excercise wheel, the same concepts and low-rpm alternator design could be applied to a school science project using different energy sources! A small wind or hydro turbine could easily power this alternator. The Otherpower.com staff thought of building a hamster-powered nightlight a couple years ago at a rather, uh, soused company Christmas party. Then recently Analise, an 8th grader from Albuquerque, NM, contacted DanF through the AllExperts.com Science For Kids forum, asking 'Can a rodent generate enough electricity to power a light by running on it's wheel?'"
power your website while it's being slashdotted.
Man has finally harnessed the power of animals. Soon we will be able to bring animals to other fields, replacing farm equipment and automobiles.
Let's not forget that one can hate his government, but love his country.
String a baked ham to the thing and see if she can light up Chicago.
Thankyou, I'll be here all week. Try the fish.
Skippy dies due to slashdotting a site with 14 pictures of him... Now who is going to power the annoyingly loud little nightlight?
Hey look no pointless curley braces or semicolons... just like Python
(Cue the 'Step 3: Profit' jokes now... we all know they're coming)
"If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living."
- Seneca
From ALBUQUERQUE, you say?
ALBUQUERQUE (n.)
A shapeless squiggle which is utterly unlike your normal signature, but which is, nevertheless, all you are able to produce when asked formally to identify yourself. Muslims, whose religion forbids the making of graven images, use albuquerques to decorate their towels, menu cards and pyjamas.
Ha. I shall power my entire house with my army of one button mice
A desert covered in hordes hamster wheels, all providing power to the Western U.S.
We can hire Mexican immigrants to change the wood shavings!
'Can a rodent generate enough electricity to power a light by running on it's wheel?'
If it thinks it's being chased by Richard Gere, then yes, it probably can.
Would it work with badgers?
The people at the Badger Institute Of Devon, England have been conducting experiments and have come to the conclusion that yes, badgers can generate electricity while running in a wheel, if two other conditions are met; those involving mushrooms and a snake. Oh yes, it's a snake.
Magical Trevor, the head of the department, was unavailable for further comment.
You obviously don't know kids, what is needed is a light when they are going to sleep and if they wake up crying the rat needs to be trained to jump on the wheel and run.
So much less than 10+ hours of running is needed, but I am sure one of those super marathon rodents from yesterday couldn't hurt.
Now that we can be replaced with hamsters, why are the machines going to keep us around? I imagine they'll get a great ROI by ditching the human based Matrix in favor of a less complex one designed to simulate a glass cage with tubing in some 5th grader's bedroom.
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"Common sense will be the death of us all"
He is the light of the world, after all (John 8:12). And he doesn't even need a hamster.
Come Pinky! We must prepare for tomorrow night! Why? What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain? The same thing we do every night, Pinky... Try to power the norhteastern seaboard!!!
Can I get these fricken hamsters with self powered fricken laser beams on their fricken heads?
Who is John Cabal?
Captured the mouse in my room.
Told him to run fast enough to power my night light.
He didn't run fast enough to make enough light for me to see to feed him so he didn't have enough energy to run fast enough to...
Result: dead mouse. No night light.
Now I can't see to clean up the dead mouse.
Room smells bad.
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