Popular Science: Humans are not very efficient. When we walk, we waste close to 20 watts of energy per second. Instead of turning all calories into lift or forward motion, we turn most of them into heat that’s quickly dissipated. So my colleagues and I came up with a way to harvest the wasted energy […]
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Cassandra Daily: Bike and/or solar power may not be the best ways to charge up during cold, dark nights. Enter the K-TOR Pocket Socket, a portable hand-cranked power generator that churns out 10 watts of power at 120V to any US outlet-compatible device. Weighing less than a pound and roughly the size of a water
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Have a small stream on your property and want to use it to generate electricity? Check out this hydropower generator designed to be used in rivers and small waterways. “This machine uses a special housing called a diffuser. In this way, it utilizes special technology to increase the rate of water flow through the vanes
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Popular Science: Humans are not very efficient. When we walk, we waste close to 20 watts of energy per second. Instead of turning all calories into lift or forward motion, we turn most of them into heat that’s quickly dissipated. So my colleagues and I came up with a way to harvest the wasted energy
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Bicycles has been used to wash laundry, power the TV, and as an alternative form of transportation. A man in Seoul has now made it his main source of electricity, but creating a bicycle generator for his own home. [Interview : Moon Jang-man, Inventor ] “The generator is attached to the bicycle so that electricity
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Wired: It’s an easy way for EV owners to make some cash off their home charging setup, or for businesses to install public charging stations in their parking lots. Apps like PlugShare and Recargo already let anyone with a free electrical outlet publicize their charging station, and software like WattStation Connect can turn it into
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In the future, when the power goes out at home, you won’t have to sit in the dark; you’ll just plug in your car. Nissan has revealed new technology that will allow their electric car, the Leaf, to to feed power back into the home. According to the company, the car’s batteries can run some
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