MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car

An anonymous reader writes "If you had a GenShock, you may not mind those potholes in the road any longer because this new prototype shock actually harvests energy from bumps in the road to save on fuel. A team of students at MIT have invented a shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road, generating electricity while it smooths the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. Senior Shakeel Avadhany and his teammates say they can produce up to a 10 percent improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using the regenerative shock absorbers. They also already have a lot of interest in their design, specifically the company that builds Humvees for the army are already planning to install them in its next version of the Humvee."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Terrible News! Please read!

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to Linux which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.

Re:Genious and bullshit

[Jeppe Salvesen]

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The Stimulus bill is an Obamanation.

[Anonymous Coward]

Show of hands: who's excited about losing autonomy for personal medical decisions and having your medical treatments routed through some narcoleptic government half-wit who could never cut it in the private sector for approval?

Re:The Stimulus bill is an Obamanation.

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Show of hands: who's excited about losing autonomy for personal medical decisions and having your medical treatments routed through some HMO CEO who would rather spend your premiums on a yacht?