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[img]http://www.technologyreview.com/files/48537/piezo_x220.jpg[/img]
Power flex: This material contains piezoelectric nanowires. When flexed, it produces enough power to drive a liquid-crystal display.
Credit: ACS/Nano Letters
Devices that harvest wasted mechanical energy could make many new advances possible—including clothing that recharges personal electronics with body movements, or implants that tap the motion of blood or organs. But making energy-harvesting devices that are compact, flexible, and, above all, efficient remains a big challenge. Now researchers at Georgia Tech have made the first nanowire-based generators that can harvest sufficient mechanical energy to power small devices, including light-emitting diodes and a liquid-crystal display.
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[url]http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/26689/[/url]
Wow, that sounds awesome. Hope we see these in mass production soon.
So, how long before we can interlace them through the skin in our our hands?
Come on think how much your hands move during the day, that's a substantial amount of energy that's not being tapped.
There was something simmilar, but with pavement tiles.
What I want to be invented: some kind of expanding heat cell that could be used to gather energy in the form of heat in a much more efficient manner
currently most burned oil and coal (and nuclear power) goes to waste since we collect the heat from those processes by steam and turbines
Nanogenerators: Harvesting the power of dance since 2010
What you could do is use a an electro-thermometer type set up, that gathers charge as it heats up and incorporate that material into the turbine blades, that way the dynamo effect is bolstered by the added electricity generated from the material.
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=FerrisWheel;25940664]Nanogenerators: Harvesting the power of dance since 2010[/QUOTE]
"In other news, players of the game Dance Dance Revolution surpass coal power plants in terms of energy output, more on this at 11."
[QUOTE=bravehat;25940701]What you could do is use a an electro-thermometer type set up, that gathers charge as it heats up and incorporate that material into the turbine blades, that way the dynamo effect is bolstered by the added electricity generated from the material.[/QUOTE]
It's more, but it's not perfect. We would need much less nuclear plants, much less fuel, and much less waste if the power could be harvested more efficiently. I think the expanding fuel cell method I mentioned is the most realistic prediction for what it's going to be like.
Well of course it's not perfect, nothing ever is, it's impossible to have a perfect anything. Entropy's a bitch.
[QUOTE=bravehat;25939942]So, how long before we can interlace them through the skin in our our hands?
Come on think how much your hands move during the day, that's a substantial amount of energy that's not being tapped.[/QUOTE]
I could definitely see one of these being mounted under your skin at a finger joint, so every time your finger flexes it generates power. Surely you can implant a 1/8 inch jack to go along with it and there you have it. Plug and Play with your hands now has two meanings!
Better idea that is less terrifying.
Wifi the power back to shit.
[quote]including clothing that recharges personal electronics with body movements[/quote]
I instantaneously pictured a some sort of electrical device strapped onto some Crysis-kinda soldier guy's leg, recharging itself for its whatever purpose
It's awesome to see all the future scifi-jibble-babble come true from the movies and games, holy shit.
This kind of tech is used to make huge snake things that float on the surface of water and as the waves flex them, they generate electricity
Too bad these things start actually showing up after 10 years or so
I want 10 cubic meters of this stuff no seriously this stuff is amazing.
[editline]8th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=Mikesword221;25939916]Wow, that sounds awesome. Hope we see these in mass production soon.[/QUOTE]
we are looking at you china.
I want this shit laced through my skin, god damnit I would be a walking fucking battery.
IMAGINE YOUR ABILITY TO SHOCK PEOPLE!!
Use this to harvest the power of waves/tides. Epic.
Also I want to shock people :)
[QUOTE=bravehat;25939942]So, how long before we can interlace them through the skin in our our hands?
Come on think how much your hands move during the day, that's a substantial amount of energy that's not being tapped.[/QUOTE]
Yeah we should definitely embed some in our wrists, think about how often we wing our hands up and down on a daily basis
Best resolution for energy, apply the nano generators to your dick, fap vigorously, power up your LCD at the same time so you can continue fapping.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;25945202]Yeah we should definitely embed some in our wrists, think about how often we wing our hands up and down on a daily basis[/QUOTE]
why stop there?, put them on all major joints and muscles in your body.
You'd be a walking power plant.
[QUOTE=bravehat;25942497]I want this shit laced through my skin, god damnit I would be a walking fucking battery.
IMAGINE YOUR ABILITY TO SHOCK PEOPLE!![/QUOTE]
It's almost like you'd have uuuuunnnlliiimiiitteeeedd pooowweeeerrrrr
I want this NOW
MASS PRODUCE IT
PUT IT INTO MY ARM - CHARGE MY PHONE OR SOMETHING
[editline]9th November 2010[/editline]
[quote=goon165;25945364]why stop there?, put them on all major joints and muscles in your body.
You'd be a walking power plant.[/quote]
best idea ever
would love this
i'll sign up to test this
[editline]9th November 2010[/editline]
The resulting device is about 1.5 by two centimeters and, when compressed 4 percent every second, it produces about two volts, enough to drive a liquid-crystal display taken from a calculator. "We were generating 50 millivolts in the past, so this is an enhancement of about 20 times," says Wang.
[editline]9th November 2010[/editline]
2 volts Is really good for something this small
Put a few strips on the edge of all those Wind Turbines!
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