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Power Your House by Flushing!

by ThePete 12:23 pm 2008-03-12

The above screencap comes from a March 6, 2008 post at Engadget.com (see the whole thing here: http://www.engadget.com/…you-flush/ ) and it reports on this cool new gadget that uses the power gravity and your toilet water to create electricity for your house.

As someone who fully believes the age of cheap oil is over with, this is one way (of many) we can reduce our use of fossil fuels. After all, there won’t be just one replacement for oil, but many. Finding new ways to use some of the already-existing alternative energy sources is a great thing and the Benkatine Turbine from Leviathan Energy (official website: http://leviathanenergy.com/ ) does exactly that.

Now, there won’t be much pooptricity (as one green blog called it: http://www.inhabitat.com/…ur-toilet/ ) created by this little guy, but every little bit counts in a world where a barrel of oil will run you $110. If enough people start using these the environment would benefit, too.

And just think about how good it’ll feel to give a crap for the environment. LITERALLY!
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by ThePete 12:23 pm 2008-03-12 TheTech.ThePete.Com | Tags , , , , | $ |

Eco Media Player: Hand Crank-Powered

by ThePete 9:05 pm 2007-11-13

Hey, check it out–it’s a hand-crank-powered media player. It runs most of your favorite audio and video formats and pictures too. It has an FM radio, a flash light, a voice recorder and can even charge your cell phone (at the cost of playing your media, I’m guessing). Of course, the screen is a little bit too small for most folks (just 1.8 inches) and the price is way too high for just 2 gigs of storage (even with an SD slot). This thing comes in at £155, which is like $8000 in US cash (ok, so it’s more like $320 at current exchange rates).

Ah well, it’s a nice start. Hopefully that price can come down a bit for the 2nd generation model. Oh and FYI, it was designed by Trevor Baylis, the same chap who brought us the original wind-up radio which he designed, according to a post at TreeHugger.com, “as a way of getting information on HIV/AIDS to remote African villagers. The success of that project spawned the brand Freeplay, who have dominated the self powered device market for the past decade.”

Pretty cool pedigree.

Read more about the Eco Media Player at TreeHugger and/or UberGizmo.

by ThePete 9:05 pm 2007-11-13 TheMiniBlog, TheTech.ThePete.Com | Tags , , , | $ |

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