The Zone

We admit that sometimes we have a tendency to be on the ecowarrior side, but then again, things like Steorn and that so-called free energy movement made little or no impact on us due to their vaporware status. If its not available yet, or its still lurking in the pages of PopSci, then we're not buying in. What we're buying in though, is this -

(images are copyright of Digital Chosunilbo)

Those look like gears, no? The basic principle is that wind pushes the paddles on the gears, and each gear is connected to the other, meaning that if a single gear moves, the whole apparatus moves, and that allows for an almost 24 hours charging cycle, provided you've got winds of over 2MPH blowing. Since our office is always buffeted by strong winds, and 20 of them gearwheels cost only US$25 (but of course, we'll still need the capacitors and the batteries and the electronics to keep the charge as electrically 'clean' as possible), prices will sure drop once it reaches mass-production (which is coming sooner than 2009). 

Talk about geeks going green!!! XD

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