Recent content by HYPETRAIN

Excuse me for being naive, but how does this gather the heat? I thought it just rotated something that generated energy o_O

Sort of adding on to what I was asking, it says "form" matters but I'm wondering if weight does. Like if someone weighs 100 lb, will they generate 1/2 the energy of a 200 lb person? Or is that not how this works? It isn't piezo so I'm not sure...

While I agree with most of what you said sophie, I actually found a pretty promising startup related to the shoe thing. While this may not be "the future" since it's sort of impractical, what do you think about the tech they use? Apparently it's not piezo but it works like this (similar to a...

I was looking into some small scale harvesting devices and I found one about an MIT shoe energy harvesting thing that generated 250 mW as you walked. Are there any newer versions of such tech? I saw a company called Instep nanopower, but I'm not sure if their original experiment succeeded in...

Oh okay, I understand. Are there any human powered generators that are generating anywhere near Watts? (I'm googling this as I type this btw)

Wow, really? Is the power output not like per second or something? Shouldn't there be vibration mechanisms that charge it in a few hours?

So, personally, I'm really excited about having wireless energy harvesting. I was looking up articles on piezoelectrics, since that seems to be the leading thing these days, and I encountered an article that designed a MEMS circuit (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3958224/). It's...