>Although you can't charge an AA battery that fast, we now at least have >figured out that 36 feet is how far your 125-lb weight needs to fall to >charge it. So you just have to arrange for the 125 lbs (you or surrogate) >to cover the 36 feet vertically slowly enough that the AA battery can >absorb the charge without overheating. I forgot to add the implication that to store an AA cell's worth of energy in a spring by standing on a lever, you have to move the lever 36 feet. For the equivalent of a Sony NP-F950 (32.4 WHr) you'd have to move the lever 686 feet using your 125 lbs of body weight. I'd prefer to just plug it into a charger and come back a couple of hours later. But I'll concede that if you're deep in the Amazon jungle with neither power outlets nor solar power this might not be an option. Vaughan -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org
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