Tesla may have been more of a lunatic than a scientist. See Skeptical Inquirer, Summer 1994 v18 n4. http://web3.searchbank.com/infotrac/session/8/378/21415076w3/12!xrn_3&bkm http://web3.searchbank.com/infotrac/session/8/378/21415076w3/12!xrn_2&bkm http://web3.searchbank.com/infotrac/session/8/378/21415076w3/12!xrn_1&bkm -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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