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there's huge amounts of energy involved in the movement of glaciers, any ability to tap into that has got to be a good thing. |
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through harnessing the natural flexing of the glacier with piezo electric generators |
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Piezoelectrics are sort of low-power; I wonder if there's some other means we could capture the energy. Kudos for identifying an underexplored resource. |
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Okay, if a crevass full of piezoelectrics is too low power how about using the movement of the crevass to pump fuild through a turbine? |
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Glaciers aren't what one would call, "fast". |
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On the other hand, if each person was to build a small stone wall across a small stream anywhere they could find one, most water could be prevented from ever reaching downstream turbines. |
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So sorry the shower is cold but the glacier is slow this month. |
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pizoelectrics have a lot of loss over periods more than .1 seconds, I think. |
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