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Using Gym Rats' Body Power to Generate Electricity
Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "A Hong Kong health club is hoping that a car battery, some StairMasters and dozens of gym rats can help ease the world's energy problems. It is just one of a wave of projects that are trying to tap the power of the human body, the Wall Street Journal reports. The article explains the impetus behind the project: 'The human power project at California Fitness was set in motion by Doug Woodring, a 41-year-old extreme-sports fanatic and renewable-energy entrepreneur, who pitched the experiment to the gym's management last May. "I've trained my whole life, and many megawatts have been wasted," says Mr. Woodring, who has worked out at the Hong Kong gym for years. "I wanted to do something with all that sweat."'"
That seems to me indiscriminatorio, is a way to accuse the fat people, who fault does not have don't mention it http://www.dovoyeur.com/
NEW YORK -- Conan O'Brien, the host of long-running television program "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," died Thursday night after stepping on a manhole cover apparently electrified by a faulty underground cable, witnesses and police sources said. If confirmed to have been caused by stray voltage, the comedian's electrocution would be the third such fatality in New York this winter.
Witnesses said O'Brien, 44, had been crossing Columbus Avenue with his wife and children when he suddenly yelled and fell to the street thrashing. After another pedestrian was shocked trying to assist him, police officers kept everyone else away. O'Brien lay twitching in the intersection for over fifteen minutes before the Fire Department was able to reach him using a ladder, police said.
Slashdot is a blog about technology. In the last year or two, there have been interesting developments where the old, boring battery industry has started interacting with technology. I hear they have managed to wire a "lead acid voltaic cell" to a "digital timepiece" in order to allow a person to tell the time when they are not close to a grid powered clock. This device can be carried on a trolley pulled by horses miles away from mains power. Amazing stuff, really.
I hate printers.
What the world is coming to?
The sad realization that the second and third movies sucked?
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
I prefer the burnt dust smell coming out of my monitor; scorched capacitors and the damp mildew mixed with molding pizza of my room in my parent's basement THANK YOU. Sweat how revolting eeeeuuuuwww disgusting.
TROLL - this is untrue.
At least they stopped posting boring asinine articles about GPS 3 times a day. That was around the time I stopped reading slashdot regularly. That and they made a it a fucking bitch just to post a few comments.