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Category Archives: Kinetic Energy
Invisible Bicycle Helmet
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<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/43038579″>The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/focusf”>Focus Forward Films</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
small flexible chip for kinetic power
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/human-power-is-the-future/ By using out natural bodymovement, they have created a small chip that will actually capture and harness that natural energy to create enough energy to power up things such as a cell phone, pacemaker and many other small devices that are electronic. The chip is actually a combination of rubber and ceramic nanoribbons. When the chip is flexed, it generates electrical energy.
Sustainable dance floor
The dance club Watt in Rotterdam harvests energy from dance to light up the dance floor.
http://www.sustainabledanceclub.com/
Piezoelectricity
Since we were on the topic of piezoelectric sensors and what they can do – Here is an article that briefly describes some of the (rather popular) applications of the concept including the energy generating dance floors from Club Watt, Tokyo Subway’s floors that power ticket gates and display systems and a British supermarket’s kinetic road plates that produce energy from cars that run over speed bumps.
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