Posted on 11/22/2009 7:34:38 AM PST by decimon
.....And in further energy news, Hamsters blowing on an ice cube can cool the room!
The piezoelectric effect is a fascinating thing limited in usage. It will produce High voltages but not high current.
Voltage is “potential” Current gets things done.
We typically use the inverse of the piezoelectric effect, applying voltage to a crystal to cause it to oscillate as a clock, because it is far more useful to take advantage of this phenomena than it is to apply pressure to the crystal in order to produce voltage.
The idea that we can use crystals for serious production of energy is shocking
I guess they’ll change the operation from picking up vibrations from a guitar to just using wind.
That's why combustion engines have magnetos, and alternators!
Just another distraction, from the solution staring us in the face.
There are so many suckers who believe that wind and sun will solve our problems.
Will it help? Maybe but at great expense.
Fossil fuels are cheap and readily available.
One if the most fascinating things I have seen in mylife was a landslide down the face of a Lantern Hill in Connecticut in the dead of night.
The Hill is made of a silica rock which displays piezoelectric property’s. Any how, as the rockslide occured it produced blue arcing electric flashing and the entire hill was washed with the blue light as the wave of stone washed down the hill.
Fascinating effect
Maybe they plan to generate electricity on a windy day when the car is parked. Otherwise, it’s just going to slow the car down. I doubt it’s any more efficient than the conventional method and the amount of energy required to charge a cell phone is minuscule.
But that claim is not here being made.
BTW as we camped at the top of of the hill we built a campfire of wood because striking silica rocks for warmth was worthless
Maybe I can use this to jumpstart my perpetual motion machine.
Is that the ‘pie in the sky” I've heard so much about? I'll have a slice please (I love pie!).
Were you washing something when you wrote this?
There is already a company that manufactures this product. They are called Humdinger Wind Energy. These devices create so little power, they are useful for almost nothing.
Wash/wave whatever. I was using the word as a descriptor.
But, we are betting our future on lies. And there is a lot of false hope.
Two issues: we Americans consume a lot of energy AND the only viable sources are not allowed.
There is a plan to kill coal. What will replace it? Nuclear is out, too. And hydroelectric — no. Whats left? Solar, Wind???
All the while, the clock is ticking... power plants are getting old and demand is increasing. And we are betting our future on wind and solar.
Sorry... the emperor is NOT wearing any clothes.
BTW Connecticut has fascinating geology. Not only is the place loaded with this silica, it has a ton of mica which also has interesting electrical properties
No doubt all the “perpetual motioners” will get all excited about this bogus article.
Once again, I will invoke the second law of thermodynamics.
Any miniscule amount of energy that is generated comes from a miniscule amount of gasoline for which the driver paid a miniscule amount.
Since the energy from your wall socket cost less than gasoline, you are better off plugging it in at home, if you care.
Otherwise, you are better off plugging it into the lighter socket that is already in your car.
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