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| Thread ID: 81925 | 2007-08-10 23:31:00 | Everybody Jump At The Count Of Three! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 579319 | 2007-08-10 23:31:00 | Imagine...if you will...if youse guys all got oars and set them on the beaches on the East & West side of youse guys' island...and rowed for all your might..going North...I bet you could generate enough electricity to light up ChCh at least..... www.msnbc.msn.com ....................and also move to a hemisphere that would not make the blood rush to your heads like it does in Upsidedown Land. . :stare: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 579320 | 2007-08-11 00:07:00 | You'll keep Joe, you'll keep. I am sure a friendly insult will come your way soon. PJ :waughh: | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 579321 | 2007-08-11 22:24:00 | Of course in reality, most of the people moving energy is in fact a taxing the grid for human convenience . Consider that people are so lazy that they would rather ride an escalator than walk one flight of stairs . I've always found it funny seeing that in the middle of CHCH bus centre . So many of the people who ride the buses are in fact fat and unmotivated, not that that is in any way unique to bus riders . Consider the amount of people who will fire up a fossil-fuel burning engine and move a ton of metal box 200 mtres just to save walking a block to the dairy for a stick of chocolate? Bit like people who live a life of leisure, an then drive to the gym just up the road "to keep fit" . Better to harvest people than to hope that they will provide energy living! Personthingy wonders how much harvestable energy is in the fat of the average overweight human? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 579322 | 2007-08-11 22:28:00 | piezoelectricity. What a cool word. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 579323 | 2007-08-11 22:38:00 | Perhaps a more practical use of this concept might be to have lifts that generated electricity when people were going down? So if a lift pulled power of the fairly stable national grid, while bringing people up several flights of stairs, and then dumped it into water heating, or topping up the DC reserves in something like datacentres or the cellphone towers at the top of the building when returning them to the ground floor? It would be interesting to see how much energy could be harvested by capturing the energy from lowering 500Kg of people, say 50 metres . . . . Physicists, i give you the challenge: how much energy is there to be harvested in such an action? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 579324 | 2007-08-12 01:06:00 | You'll keep Joe, you'll keep. I am sure a friendly insult will come your way soon. PJ :waughh: Maybe Joe could tell us how much energy is generated by burning the fat removed from all the liposuction patients in the US? That population's so huge it could surely power something bigger than Christchurch? And obviously those innovative Yanks wouldn't just waste it. Would they? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 579325 | 2007-08-12 04:45:00 | Harpoon fat chicks and burn the blubber in a power station. tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 579326 | 2007-08-12 05:31:00 | Harpoon fat chicks and burn the blubber in a power station. tedheath Fat chicks? I wasn't being sexistly selective. Beer bellies..? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 579327 | 2007-08-12 05:39:00 | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and also move to a hemisphere that would not make the blood rush to your heads like it does in Upsidedown Land . . :stare: Sorry Joe, We know of the perils of being North of here . Last beach I passed on the way home from windy Wellington, there were heaps of Kiwis paddling like hell in the direction of South . Ken :p |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 579328 | 2007-08-12 17:28:00 | Sorry Joe, We know of the perils of being North of here . Last beach I passed on the way home from windy Wellington, there were heaps of Kiwis paddling like hell in the direction of South . Ken :p Alas . . . I feel the damage has been done . . . all that oxygenated blood just stuck in craniums and not traveling to nether regions . . . . . I present the preceding evidence . (^) "Heaps" of anything, including poor little defenseless/flightless birds trying to move to colder climes . . generates a sad mental image . It might be a migratory response . . . . |
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