RE: A Very Compact Guide to Energy Harvesting - Part 001

DAB — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:13:26 GMT

Hi Monte,

I have been waiting for your first blog.

After reading over all of the posts, I wonder, have any of you testers considered putting the thermal collector onto a solar cell to pick up the wasted heat generated by the cell?

It could be an interesting study to do about collecting both the IR and visible light for energy production.

To all of the testers, I like what I see and look forward to your future posts.

Thanks

DAB

RE: A Very Compact Guide to Energy Harvesting - Part 001

vsluiter — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:42:30 GMT

Hi COMPACT,

Nice to see you back again. I guess crawl, walk run is a very good strategy... I always start with running, but that gets very tiring in the end [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-e11b6c69-4adb-4107-81b0-f5162dfdd2b0/contentimage_5F00_3.png:16:16]

To pick the odd one out: I guess it's the drum pad because it doesn't have a red and black lead

I like your idea for the remote. It's low power, and a lot of batteries are wasted in these things. Good candidate for energy harvesting!

Looking at the pictures you made, I realized that energy harvesting is also something based on local conditions; your toys-with-energy-kit picture is sunny (and it's 23.7 degrees outside! whoaa....), so sun is apparently an abundant energy source at your place. When you'd be designing something to use above the polar circle, solar power would not be the source of choice. Local solutions for global impact.... I'm getting carried away [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-e11b6c69-4adb-4107-81b0-f5162dfdd2b0/contentimage_5F00_3.png:16:16]