I agree...
I have several devices that use the mini optical jacks. It wouldn't be hard to put one on the iPod. But then again... who are we fooling? Why are we worried about a digital output on the iPod when the average consumer is going go load it up with 128kbps mp3s? The bottom line is mp3 players are NOT intended for audiophiles!
Yes, that is true. However, we are already producing the wind despite that fact, so you might as well use it. My guess is that it is so cost ineffective that there is no point in doing it (too many small generators & money to put in divider). Hence nobody has done it. I don't imagine they produce as much power as windmills either.
I just thought it was an interesting experiment that had pretty interesting results. Anyway, I don't think we are going to find a wind generated solution that will completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels.
Hmmm... so what you are saying is that we need to balance the use of burning fossil fuels, thus creating CO2, thus warming the planet, with the use of windmills to cool the planet.;-)
I would be interested to see that article. A 2 degree global temperature change is pretty big. I don't understand how that would really happen. The laws of conservation of energy should show that the energy is not being "taken away". The turbines create heat (moving parts), many of the devices that use the power create heat, and I am sure there are lots of other places that the energy is turned into heat. Yes, that energy would be turned into other forms of energy (light etc.), but then again, it wasn't in the form of heat to begin with. I am not saying that there wouldn't be environmental impacts... I just don't know that I agree it would cause a drop in temp. Then again, I am no physicist and I don't know what I am talking about.
Dinosaurs: Millions of years ago, nature destroyed them. Help them get even... use fossil fuels.
Ok, on a more serious note, I had seen an interesting news article years ago about someone who setup some windmills, except they were a little different than most. They consisted of long three sided objects... like the turning signs car dealerships put on the top of cars except they were long and skinny rather than short and squat. These were built into the concrete dividers on the highway. The traffic driving in opposite directions on opposite sides created MORE than enough wind to turn the rows of hundred mini-windmills.
No eyesore (no worse than a concrete divider)
No dead birds (if they fly into these they deserve to die)
No changing wind patterns (any more than they already are that is)
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I agree...
I have several devices that use the mini optical jacks. It wouldn't be hard to put one on the iPod. But then again... who are we fooling? Why are we worried about a digital output on the iPod when the average consumer is going go load it up with 128kbps mp3s? The bottom line is mp3 players are NOT intended for audiophiles!
Yes, that is true. However, we are already producing the wind despite that fact, so you might as well use it. My guess is that it is so cost ineffective that there is no point in doing it (too many small generators & money to put in divider). Hence nobody has done it. I don't imagine they produce as much power as windmills either.
I just thought it was an interesting experiment that had pretty interesting results. Anyway, I don't think we are going to find a wind generated solution that will completely eliminate the need for fossil fuels.
Hmmm... so what you are saying is that we need to balance the use of burning fossil fuels, thus creating CO2, thus warming the planet, with the use of windmills to cool the planet. ;-)
I would be interested to see that article. A 2 degree global temperature change is pretty big. I don't understand how that would really happen. The laws of conservation of energy should show that the energy is not being "taken away". The turbines create heat (moving parts), many of the devices that use the power create heat, and I am sure there are lots of other places that the energy is turned into heat. Yes, that energy would be turned into other forms of energy (light etc.), but then again, it wasn't in the form of heat to begin with. I am not saying that there wouldn't be environmental impacts... I just don't know that I agree it would cause a drop in temp. Then again, I am no physicist and I don't know what I am talking about.
Dinosaurs: Millions of years ago, nature destroyed them. Help them get even... use fossil fuels.
Ok, on a more serious note, I had seen an interesting news article years ago about someone who setup some windmills, except they were a little different than most. They consisted of long three sided objects... like the turning signs car dealerships put on the top of cars except they were long and skinny rather than short and squat. These were built into the concrete dividers on the highway. The traffic driving in opposite directions on opposite sides created MORE than enough wind to turn the rows of hundred mini-windmills.
No eyesore (no worse than a concrete divider) No dead birds (if they fly into these they deserve to die) No changing wind patterns (any more than they already are that is)