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Mice should be lucky there isn't a way to turn them into gasoline.]]>Feb 27th 2009 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/
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Flapping flag < Flapping flag that also generates electricity.
No-one would even consider trying to replace a wind turbine with a bunch of flags, but there are many many embassies all over the place that are up to their ears in flags; why not make them do something useful on their off hours?]]>Feb 27th 2009 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 1:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 1:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 5:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/
That could be a good way to keep the hamster running on it's wheel, hook up that nanogenerator to a nano cow-prodder. The more it runs the more it gets shocked to keep it running. Here comes PETA....]]>Feb 27th 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/]]>Feb 27th 2009 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/
"I wouldn't."

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It's not free. It's not even cheap. If you want to harvest x% of the energy from anything and convert it to electricity, you are borrowing from the normal output of whatever the activity was. So, for example, if I want to harvest 50% of the energy used from your speech, that means you're going to have a 50% harder time projecting your voice somewhere. Half of the energy that would normally be converted to sound is going to be muted during the conversion to electricity. And you're not going to get all 50% of the energy back as electricity; you might be lucky to get 20% of it.

Ugh. And physics is very counter-intuitive to me :(]]>Feb 27th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 27th 2009 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 28th 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/Feb 28th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/27/jacketed-hamsters-demonstrate-movement-powered-nanogenerators/
Call me cruel, but I'm quite interested in seeing how much energy would be created in the panic of a life and death situation.]]>Mar 6th 2009 10:53AM