[nmglug] Free Software, Free Energy

[troy banther]

Hmm? What? Did someone say something?

:)

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 23:09, Karl Hegbloom wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 12:42 -0700, joe at highmayhem.com wrote:
> >
> > I suggest body power as a cleaner alternative. Remember those wrist 
> > watches that were powered my the movement of it's self on ones wrist. 
> > Suppose a supper efficient computer that was powered by energy harnessed 
> > from key strokes and mouse use. For vegans like Troy and I this would be 
> > totally plant based energy.
> 
> You would have to type pretty fast and all day long to keep it going.
> It would be like a perpetual motion machine.  How could you run long
> number-crunching computations with that?  Store up the energy created
> while typing all the code?  Then you need that battery again.
> 
> What if you drew energy from all of the users of AOL?  Do they type that
> much, or are they just lazy consumers reading advertising?
> 
> I think that battery manufacturing can be engineered to reduce the
> harmful environmental impacts.  Batteries can be designed for recycling
> from the start.  The problem then is getting all of those lazy consumers
> to actually bring them in for recycle.
> 
> 
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