Just posting a note about the current state of piezo energy harvesting.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140316102707.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140316102707.htm
LOL.Should I go to the beach and enjoy the waves while they still exist?
Another tax on the working class!Adding some energy harvesting (robbing) device under your feet would cause you to expend more energy to walk the same distance, as nothing is free - it isn't harvesting unused energy, it is robbing you of energy that you wouldn't have to expend otherwise.
To take the silliness a step further, ponder this:You guys are silly!
(I like silly )
Bill Marsden said this about our planet in a sticky over-unity thread:With our wave power leeches, can we actually succeed in putting a drag on the moon, causing it to slow down and eventually fall out of orbit, crashing into the earth?
That will convince the doubters of global warmingI think there is a chance the sun will engulf us in its red giant phase first
Are you saying my interpretation was backwards?as the earths spin slows down, it imparts this momentum to the moon, which means every year the moon is several inches further out.
Do we have to call you #21 now?Are you saying my interpretation was backwards?
So you're saying I'm actually on to something? I was just joking. Maybe if I joked more often, I would sound smarter.A very long time ago, the moon was much closer than it is now and almost geosynchronous. The tides were a thousand times as high as they are now. That energy expended as tidal forces caused the moon to slow down, and that's is why is is now farther away and lags the spin of the planet by about one orbit per 28 days.
I'm not sure you are right. The moon/earth movement puts a fixed amount of energy into the tides, energy which is normally dissipated chaotically into the shores etc.To take the silliness a step further, ponder this:
Waves are caused by tides; the moon orbiting the earth, pulling the ocean along with its gravitational field. If we sap energy from the waves, do we not therefore sap energy from the tides that created them? And if we sap energy from the tides, do we not therefore sap energy from the moon? With our wave power leeches, can we actually succeed in putting a drag on the moon, causing it to slow down and eventually fall out of orbit, crashing into the earth?
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