Power harnessed one step at a time

 Power harnessed one step at a time


In the push to harvest alternative energy, scientists
have tapped a number of novel sources: the sun, corn,
old cooking oil. But how about the simple act of walking?

For two architecture students at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., the
sound of footsteps is an echo of energy gone to waste.
They figure that the stomp of every footfall gives
off enough power to light two 60-watt bulbs for one second.

"Now imagine how many people walk through a train
station each morning, or walk down the street in Hong Kong,"
says James Graham, who, with fellow MIT graduate student
Thaddeus Jusczyk, is helping to develop the growing field
of "crowd farming."




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I was thinking it'd be funny as hell to put little turbines in urinals,
so when you piss you could spin a little wheel and make power. Also when
you flush it would make power.

Think I can get a govt grant to research that one?

 

    Only if you are in the USA.....

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the splashback factor needs at least 100 grand to be resolved

 

100 grand?  Generally grants like that are around 20 billion and are for 20
years.  That's only one billion a year so you'll have to  budget your
experiments.