[NewCandle] Energy Harvesting

[John Steck]

About 10 or so years ago now, I had a client that was looking to light up a 
big structural steel sculpture, but we had a hard time with how to do it as 
the artist wanted it done.  In the end we settled on a solid core polymer 
rope system driven by single source high intensity halogen at one end of 
each of the extrusions that crawled up helicoidally around the sides.  Power 
supply and weatherproofing issues/disagreements with the proposed 
installation location were never resolved and in the end the whole thing got 
shelved....  fast forward to today, take this harvesting system, add some 
wind driven resonator elements to the structure (think long stylized guitar 
strings) to drive a low power LED based fiber-optic system 
http://www.trinorthlighting.com/Flex%20LED%20Neon%20Lights.htm and we get a 
self driving / off-grid, location independent lighting solution.  Might not 
be a reliable solution for say, on demand street or building lighting... but 
for an art sculpture it would have been fine.  You would just need a 
location with sufficient regular wind.

>From a utility standpoint, it might be interesting to see how scalable the 
system is and whether a 'guitar string' wind generation system like this 
could realistically generate usable power.  Can you imagine the Tao hum a 
field of them would generate? You would never get past the NIMBY 
objections... ha ha

-j


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From: "Nick Reiter" <avalonbiker at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 4:24 PM
To: "New energy for the new world." <newcandle at ipdiscover.com>
Subject: Re: [NewCandle] Energy Harvesting

> Clever looking!
>
> I need to line my walls at home with an AF version of
> these, on big resonant tympanic ear diaphragms, for
> when my youngest one and his death metal thrash band
> practice in the basement.  Recover some of the watts
> from the amps, as a matter of speaking:)
>
> Although one wonders whether these little jobbies
> could be mounted in wind turbine blades to collect a
> tad more power from system vibrations there.
>
> nr
>
>
> --- John Steck <johnsteck at tetrahelix.com> wrote:
>
>> Ran across this today and thought I would share...
>> they offer a demo unit
>> but I can not find a price or how to purchase one:
>>
> http://www.adaptivenergy.com/Applications/energyharvest.html
>>
>> -j
>>
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