Serious alternative energy: Charge your iPod with an onion and some gatorade
Looking for weird and creative ways to use less power but still keep gadgets like your iPod charged up? Well I think we have a winner! McGyver would even be proud of this video demonstrating how to charge up your gear using nothing but a USB cord, an onion, some Gatorade, and a screwdriver.
The whole thing only takes a couple minutes to set up (besides letting the onion soak) so I think I'm totally going to give this a shot! Do you think it works on cell phones too? Because I have a friend who can't seem to keep anything charged -- maybe having this option would help?
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11-27-2007 @ 9:50AM
rekoj said...
Just to let you know, this is totally bogus. This 'set-up' never completes a circuit, his instructions don't match up with what he's doing (yellow onion, 1 cup sports drink), just unfeasible.
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11-27-2007 @ 10:08AM
Airmon said...
If you tried that, please contact me. I have some lovely Florida Real Estate I'd like to talk to you about. It's only under water 10% of the time, but I'll sell it for 50% off.
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12-16-2007 @ 3:12PM
salvatore forzisi said...
Procedure of loading batteries of an electrical vehicle by Aeolic system
The recharges of batteries, which supplies energy to the electric motor of a vehicle, will be carried out through an Aeolic System composed by the following elements:
-rotor
-generator,
-controller with load
-rectifier
The vehicle, being left over, will always have some air amount whose speed will be directly propertional to the same speed of the vehicle.
The air will enter in the autobody by the embrasures placed in the frontal part of the vehicle, and it will canalized towards the rotores.
The rotores could be one or more and they will be placed inside the auto body in a way not to hinder the advance of the vehicle creating friction.
The Permanent Magnet Generator (PMG) concurs of extracting the maximum
power by the rotor.
The controller with loads serves to prevent the damaging of the batteries.
The generated current will be “alternating current trifase” (AC) and will be converted from the rectifier in “direct current” (DC).
The generator, the controllers electronics, the rectifier and the batteries will be placed into the vehicle.
The direct current, finally, will be canalized, by a power cable , towards the batteries and it will recharge to them.
It will be also possible to load the batteries when the vehicle is stopped.
This is possible because the wind, investing the car from several points, will be put towards a rotor that will create described energy.
Purposes of the plan and advantages:
* to produce energy to cost 0 and 0 emissions, bringing a remarkable
economic, ecological and social advantage.
* the energy produced in march feeds the same march of the vehicle and there is no need to stop for the refueling.
* development of an innovative system based on rotators and generators placed into the autobody.
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