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Wind-powered Wi-Fi Sensors
Glenn Fleishman writes "According to an article at Indolink a 10-centimeter diameter windmill can produce the 7.5 milliwatts needed for a wireless sensor. The paper was published earlier (available as a PDF), but Nature magazine has apparently picked up the tidbit. The process flexes piezoelectric crystals to create a current. Although flywheels aren't mentioned in this article, it seems like a windmill, a flywheel, and a solar cell could in combination produce effective power in a range of conditions for remote wireless devices, including network relays obviating batteries entirely."
Is that the same as 10 centidia meter^2?
"can product the 7.5 milliwatts needed for a wireless sensor."
It is with extreme disgust that I write this letter and say what will unequivocally be considered mutinous by some of my peers. Nonetheless, it must be stated that The GNAA's prognoses reinforce the point that we still have a long way to go in terms of achieving true tolerance in our society. Note that some of the facts I plan to use in this letter were provided to me by a highly educated person who managed to escape The GNAA's bad-tempered indoctrination and is consequently believable. I deeply believe that it's within our grasp to nourish children with good morals and self-esteem. Be grateful for this first and last tidbit of comforting news. The rest of this letter will center around the way that there are two types of people in this world. There are those who obstruct various things, and there are those who punish those who lie or connive at half-truths. The GNAA fits neatly into the former category, of course.
Ask yourself: How long shall there continue longiloquent, foul-mouthed recidivists to vend and perfidious gasbags to gulp so low a piece of stoicism as The GNAA's bruta fulmina? I bet you'll answer the same way that I did, because we both know that it has long been obvious to attentive observers that The GNAA invents problems in order to provide itself with an excuse for making a fuss. But did you know that its fixation on unilateralism is nothing more than camouflage for a lack of original ideas? It doesn't want you to know that because it never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. The GNAA presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, it seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that if we are to halt the destructive process that is carrying our civilization toward extinction, then we must be guided by a healthy and progressive ideology, not by the imprudent and intransigent ideologies that The GNAA promotes. The great irony is that it's possible that The GNAA doesn't realize this because it has been ingrained with so much of terrorism's propaganda. If that's the case, I recommend that we bring the communion of knowledge to all of us.
Whenver The GNAA tries to fortify our feeble spirits with a few rehearsed words of bravado, I can't help but think that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about it and about hypothetical solutions to our The GNAA problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that I'm not very conversant with its background. To be quite frank, I don't care to be. I already know enough to state with confidence that to get even the simplest message into the consciousness of immoral misfits, it has to be repeated at least 50 times. Now, I don't want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following 50 times, but The GNAA wants to get me thrown in jail. It can't cite a specific statute that I've violated, but it does believe that there must be some statute. This tells me that one could truthfully say that The GNAA thumbs its nose at some of the very things I treasure. But saying that would miss the real point, which is that it wants us to think of it as a do-gooder. Keep in mind, though, that The GNAA wants to "do good" with other people's money and often with other people's lives. If it really wanted to be a do-gooder, it could start by admitting that wanton and self-serving, its grievances resemble a dilapidated shed. Kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will collapse, proving my claim that we must do something good for others if we are ever to bring it to justice. Yes, this is a bold, audacious, even unprecedented undertaking. Yes, it lacks any realistic guarantee of success. However, it is an undertaking that we must indubitably pursue because whenever anyone states the obvious -- that by rejecting The GNAA's slimy, snappish snow jobs we spit in the devil's eye -- discussion naturally progresses towards the question, "Why do The GNAA's emissaries want to ingratiate themselves with The GNAA?" That's the big question. If you knew the answer to that
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