hmmm, Are any of you willing to follow this seriously? homebuilt gas turbines ARE a reality. And the parts for this would be relitivley cheap. $20 in berrings, and then the compressor and turbine wheels. Remember, this thing would have only ONE moving part. And it would provide nearly unlimited duration for a wearable. Now the question is, would it be pull start :) But truthfully, the gas turbine would only be usefull out of doors, on in a car with the window open. It would have to be used as a auxillary power generator for recharging the batterys when you can. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/4/99, at 5:40 PM, john flanagan wrote: >On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Robert Paris wrote: > >I remember reading about some research group (at MIT I think) which fit a >very small gas/alcohol turbine generator (with fuel!) into a laptop >battery's form factor. I forget how long it lasted before running out of >gas though. But that's a solution which might scale better for a >wearable, if you're willing to walk around with a canister of gasoline >strapped to your back. > >Hey, now there's an idea. > -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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