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Re: wearable alternative power

From: Christopher Allen <>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:30:04 -0700 (PDT)

Tesla may have been more of a lunatic than a scientist. See Skeptical
Inquirer, Summer 1994 v18 n4.

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-Chris Allen

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Timothy D. Gray wrote:

> there has been some research into this... Thad specifically has been.
> Sieko has a watch that uses your kenetic energy to charge the battery for
> it's self, being a micro-power device it can do this... but creating 2-5
> watts of power (perferabaly 10 watts) would be alot harder and larger,
> I've been looking at magnetic coupled charging for my wearable and trying
> to figure out how to keep the charger from scrambling the hard drives and
> other magnetic media.. (I know Use of a solid state hard drive would
> eliminate this problem)  I just wish tesla was able to get his wireless  
> power system working those many years ago....
> 
> Backward thinking of corperate america has more than once doomed a good
> idea to a historical footnote.
> 
> 
> > 
> > I am not an engineer, but i wonder if using more of the body than just the
> > hands might not ameliorate the tedium of hand crankinging?  For example as
> > one walks ones arms and legs are swinging back and forth, could not some
> > method be developed to use this motion to charge a bateery or capacitors?
> > 
> > Just a thought.
> > 
> > --
> > Abraços,
> > 
> > B
> > 
> 

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