Eco Factor: System to harness energy from everyday life.
Electricity sockets are often used to connect our chargers and appliances. How about a socket that instead of sucking electricity from the power grid, feeds electricity to the grid? The system is being conceptualized by Carla Diana and Jeff Hoefs. Dubbed the Inlet-Outlet, the system generates electricity from things that are used in an urban household on an everyday basis.
Closing of doors, waste heat from your oven, exercising or even jumping on the trampoline will all contribute to your personal energy statistics. All the energy can be sold to the grid or used in a house, thereby saving energy and money, which should finally get all those dollars you spend to install the system back in terms of energy savings.
The Dark Side:
The system shows a way how energy can be harnessed from things used in everyday life. However, the system seems too complicated, and if ever it is actually developed, it will cost much more than other conventional forms of renewable energy generating systems.
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I don’t know if it’s just me, but articles like this annoy me a lot.
”Here’s the latest of the engineering marvels that will never come to pass because they, in reality, use fantastic and mythical ideas in a physical world where jumping on a trampoline and making a stir fry dinner will power your kids’ Xbox 360 for 30ms.”
This is just a really poor engineering idea, any 19 year old who has taken a college physics class could tell you that. Think about how much it would cost in various components to even rig your house up to gather this ’wasted energy’. The most practical and cost effective thing that could harness free energy in any residential household is a series of solar panels, and last i checked it would take around 40 years to offset the price of purchasing the panels, maintenance/repair excluded.
I can come up with thousands of these ridiculous ideas, like putting wind turbines in your car to produce electricity when you’re driving really fast to increase your MPG. It’s bad engineering, that is all. Look at 99% of the entries over the past 60 years in any popular science magazine and see how many of those revolutionary ideas have come to pass.
Joe is right. The only way i can see this being any way effective is redesigning equipment to force you to be the source of the work being made.
Operating a hand crank generator for 30 mins will power a single 60W light bulb for that whole duration. Try using one of these generators for more than 10 minutes, and you’ll see how little electricity we as humans actually produce as an ”outlet”. Even a treadmill that is powered by you, very little energy output. The simple economics of this idea is outragous. Money spent to implement this system and redesign trampolines and treadmills vs. money saved on electricity is some incredibly large margin against.
If anything, it shows how remarkable our bodies are, because they are fairly amazing at conserving energy.
This site rocks
how does it actually work? is this just an idea or an actual device? could use some on our farm in nicaragua
If we use this,maybe we can save lots money.
every one konw green place, why to change you home like a Electric power plants
great information!!!!