Power your own home.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

This is a little leap from something I was just reading about, but it's not too much of a jump to make.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-997904 ... 47-1_3-0-5 (http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9979040-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5)


Music company Orange and GotWind, a firm specializing in renewable energy, have teamed up to create a device called the Dance Charge. Weighing 180 grams (about 6.3 ounces), you strap it around your arm. Dance Charge then uses the kinetic energy generated by your body in motion to juice up your phone.

It also uses a system of weights and magnets to produce electric current to top up the storage battery, which can later be used to charge your handset

There is not much more to the initial article than that, but if you had x amount of these little machines strapped to people and then with the ability to download the power to a central power bank for a set of buildings, out side safety lights for a community, even your own home. Hell why not one on each leg of all those muppets at the gym that can then put the power back in to the central system.

Go for a walk and power up your home?

Fox

[Bitchkoma]

Dance Charge? That's not really "Dance" Charge. This is Dance Charge:

Mega Environmentalism: Eco Nightclub Powered by Boogie Energy (http://io9.com/5018477/eco-nightclub-powered-by-boogie-energy)http://io9.com/assets/images/io9/2008/06/ecoclubbing.jpg

I wonder if it's feasible to apply this technology to floors of mass transit stations?

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Mang, that's cool.

I went to a f'up club in China once where the dance floor was metal and on big ass springs, you couldn't really dance though you just kinda bounced around and groped everyone.

But looking at that, I can just imagine a load of meat heads around the dance floor giving it the "No drinks on the piezoelectric dancefloor!"

No Fun!

Fox

[vckums]

Oh wow I could so use that here!! My kids are all over the damn place, I'd be having power no problem LOL

[apeci]

Recovering the energy lost during every day motion has been a desire for a while now. The big problem has been generating sufficient current to be of any practical use. I don't see what the capacity is of this charger on any sources so far but I'd imagine it's only a hundred or so milliamp. Enough to do just better than trickle charge a phone. However they say their system charges a battery and then can charge a phone, so expect efficiency losses not only in the transfer but in storage. You never get back out of a battery all that you put in.

Could this be a practical source of energy for a home? Maybe if you had a hundred people shakin' their booties for hours on end every single day. It'd be a small home though. Supplemental for lights and low power appliances only. However this in addition to solar, wind, bicycle generators, and my personal concoction, water main turbines, would no doubt be beneficial.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

Could always recommend that people use it to power a lamp and turn off the tee vee and read a sodding book!

Fox

[Bitchkoma]

Could always recommend that people use it to power a lamp and turn off the tee vee and read a sodding book!


Or power an iPod and read an e-book! Don't be an analog niggah.