{"id":576,"date":"2010-02-04T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/?p=576"},"modified":"2016-01-02T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:44:56","slug":"vibration-energy-to-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/archives\/576","title":{"rendered":"Vibration Energy to Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/power-generating-rubber.jpg\" alt=\"power-generating-rubber\" title=\"power-generating-rubber\" width=\"500\" height=\"161\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-575\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest advance in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piezoelectricity\">piezoelectric<\/a> technology sees an 80% conversion efficiency for converting pressure and momentum energy into electricity. Researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S26\/47\/03A23\/index.xml\">Princeton University<\/a> have created rubber sheets that have the capacity to sustainably run small electronic devices (portable gadgets&#8230;pacemakers) with no external electrical input, but just from the movement that is inflicted on the device in normal use. Not sure how green the manufacture of these gadgets are.<\/p>\n<p>This is experimental technology at this stage, but I can see the application to energy generating artwork on a massive scale that would run off of the vibrations of running people or the play of children. There are already more utilitarian applications being put forward for use on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligent-systems.info\/bridge.htm\">highways<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternative-energy-news.info\/concept-bridge-generate-electricity-moving-cars\/\">bridges<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ecolocalizer.com\/2009\/02\/08\/energy-generating-speed-bumps-get-green-light-in-london\/\">speed bumps<\/a>. Even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2009\/07\/burger-king-motion-power.php\">fast food drive-through<\/a> is getting into the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest advance in piezoelectric technology sees an 80% conversion efficiency for converting pressure and momentum energy into electricity. Researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5175,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/blagi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}