free energy

[Andy Hamilton]

I have just farted and got to thinking that I could make up a device with magnets to harness that gas and boil myself a cup of tea from the fart! I must waste loads of free energy all the time.

[Martin]

dead simple - if you ever saw the Dads Army series, they showed a WW2 device - a big gas bag on the roof of a van - you fill it with gas, and run the engine from it - so all you need are some incontinence pants, a length of tube, and an inflatable rasta hat - another bit of pipe leading to gas ring! - portable too, and no magnets!

[Martin]

probably best to incorporate simple flameguards in the piping - "flashback" could be...... amusing!

[steve64]

When you can’t fart any more get a politician to talk down the pipe!

Which one do you think talks the most bull S##T?

Steve
Essex

[hedgewizard]

Sorry matey, the technology has already been used... for evil!

From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2-In this second far-fetched tale about Walter, neighbors have been avoiding the yard-sale table where Walter has been sitting all day. Unbelievably, Father wonders why! Yet he doesn't hesitate to sell the pup to the first man who stops by to inquire. The new owner, a clown, intends to use Walter for a bank heist by fastening him to a "fart-catcher" in order to inflate balloons with his obnoxious-smelling gas. As the clown pops the balloons in the bank, customers and bank tellers are overcome with the stench. When the perp arrives home with the sack of money, he lights a cigar and is launched across the room because of a gas leak. Walter runs out the door toward his former home, and the police follow the trail of $100 bills fluttering behind him. As they try to arrest Walter, he leads them back to the real culprit. Pages are busy with digital illustrations that give an olive green pallor to the human skin tone and a garish look to the clown. For those who appreciated the lowbrow, tasteless humor of the first book, this one provides much more of the same.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA

[hedgewizard]

Okay so it's not free energy - you have to input cat kibble - but it'd be a good way to power a reading light. I know of one cat would do this for an hour at least!

[simony3]

I propose to wire up all those rowing machines and cycling machines and weightlifting machines at the local gym to generate all my electricity requirements.

[Andy Hamilton]

I propose to wire up all those rowing machines and cycling machines and weightlifting machines at the local gym to generate all my electricity requirements.

That is a damb good idea I think, perhaps gyms could at least run their lighting from all the energy generated!

[wulf]

How about shoes that recharge batteries?

Wulf

[Andy Hamilton]

That is an old invention I rmember hearing about it in the 90's, I wonder why it did not take off I hope it does now. We could probally be 'step' closer to not needing new nuclear power stations if we all got a pair.

[hedgewizard]

Hmmm - I imagine part of the shoe has to compress to make this work which is going to
a) Make it slightly but measurably more tiring to walk, and
b) Involve a moving part which means a fairly short lifetime for the product.

Of course not being an electronics engineer I'm guessing on that last one, but it comes back to the acid test - is it going to save more energy than the manufacturing and recycling costs of the product?

[wulf]

Hmmm - I imagine part of the shoe has to compress to make this work...

I thought that shoes with built in "suspension" were meant to be a boon to walkers and runners, minimising the impact on the bones by compressing a little each time you put them down. I imagine that aspect, at least, could be turned into a positive benefit!

Wulf

[hedgewizard]

Always an overstated claim IMHO, but true. Still working harder to walk though!

[Michel]

http://www.notre-planete.info/forums/re ... #msg-20497

[Shirley]

Not much use to me that link... it's in French!