Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Swing power
For those of you working on alternate power sources for rural computing there's an interesting article here, although quite old (Jan 2006), about Chandrakant Pathak and Modern Technical Center Pune. The article talks of Pathak's work on power generated from bicycles, bullocks and....swings! The engineers could look into technical feasibility, but using swings sounds like an interesting way to power playground computers....! http://www.indiatogether.org/2006/jan/eco-pathak.htm
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Interesting and does give us an idea about potential (in terms of HP) of human beings as power generators. Our work on electrical power generation using this source is also giving us interesting insights. Visit TNI CRCS to experience a computer running solely on human power!
Sanjay
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