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Two Tiny Gas Turbines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the burn-a-hole-in-your-pocket dept.

Turbines are in the news this morning. bobtheimpossible writes to point out a BBC article on a Swiss turbine that runs at half a million RPM and generates 100 watts. It's the size of a matchbook. And af_robot alerts us to an even more diminuitive gas turbine on a chip, developed at MIT, that generates 10 watts — plenty for portable electronics — and should run 10 times as long as a battery of comparable weight and cost. A commercial version is 3 to 5 years away.

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  1. Re:Still Mechanical Conversion to Energy by bogie · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Where's these fuel cells I keep hearing about?"

    Why "A commercial version is 3 to 5 years away" of course...

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  2. Re:gyroscope? by BoberFett · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine how tough it will be to bend over and tie your shoe with that thing on your hip. That could be a workout on it's own: The Gyroscopic Abdominzeratertron.

  3. Re:Still Mechanical Conversion to Energy by roseblood · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fuel cells are still very hot (at least in the reformation process).

    Not only the heat, but am I going to have to get my notebook smogged?

    Just don't let SONY make these. They will have a rootkit and burst into flames, even when turned off.

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