Motion Kinetic Generator? I Want It!

[Canibul]

48 breeding pair of gerbils and a pound of methamphetamine...

[speakeasy]

Originally Posted by Chief Engineer

My DSSV---Via Admiral Sandecker and Patrick MacClanahan.

They are bringing together the Forces of NUMA and Madcap Magician

Thanks, Clive. Tho' there are some decent resolution soviet satellite photos of the lake publicized by the French (who else?), I wouldn't know where to start, even if my security clearance hadn't been revoked, after that last little episode in Mongolia.

[denverd0n]

Originally Posted by Therapy

That back pack didn't move much and the runner got 44 watts. Pretty cool.

I suspect that "44 watts" number is either complete fiction, or an estimate of the total watt/hours a person could generate in a day of walking. Check the Univ. of Penn. website (they are the ones who invented this thing) and they say that it is capable of generating "up to 7.4 watts." That sounds a lot more realistic to me.

[Therapy]

Originally Posted by denverd0n

I suspect that "44 watts" number is either complete fiction, or an estimate of the total watt/hours a person could generate in a day of walking. Check the Univ. of Penn. website (they are the ones who invented this thing) and they say that it is capable of generating "up to 7.4 watts." That sounds a lot more realistic to me.

Ahah!!

[Cacique]

I was picking up my mooring a couple of days ago and was finding it quite hard to attach the chain to the cleat. Surely if you arranged a motorcycle type chain over a sprocket with two one way sprockets like inside a windlass and some sort of spring the up and down motion would turn a shaft attached to a generator the forces are quite high, more than the wind blowing on a turbine. However I'm sure a generating device to utilise the motion of the mooring chain is going to be far more complicated and expensive than a simple turbine so no one has done it.