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The mouse trap includes a small treadmill hooked up to a miniature dc generator. When the mouse runs on the treadmill, electricity is stored in a battery. The trick is getting the mouse to run on the treadmill. One idea is to poke an electrode into the pleasure center of its brain. Then you divert
a small amount of electricity from the generator to the electrode. The mouse runs faster on the treadmill to get the electrical stimulation of the pleasure center. Granted, it's probably a bit tricky to get the electrode in the right place.
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[Unabubba] Don't go there again. |
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Like [PeterSealy], I thought this was a device to create better mousetraps. |
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it could power more electric mice in more traps that in turn, power more electric mice in more traps etc. etc. lights up national grid eventually. |
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I thought like phoenix, but i hoped like the board game, that this would be a version of the Mousetrap boardgame where instead of constructing the same mousetrap each time, you would get to design and build an original mousetrap out of weird plastic bits. |
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(And surely a fox or tiger trap would give more energy. Or a mantrap.) |
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D'OH! Sorry [PeterSealy]. 'Course I was referring to [UnaBubba]'s annotation. And [UnaBubba], I was referencing an idea from last year when a number of us got into a debate about solar powered toys (and whether or not they should have rechargable batteries). |
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You'd get even more energy from a cheetah or (better yet) a monster truck trap. |
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An improvement might be to put the mouse on a mouse wheel, and place a cat on a treadmill behind it. And when you need even more electrical output, place a dog on a treadmill behind the cat. And if that's not enough, place a three-year-old child on a treadmill behind the dog (and to make the child run even faster, dress the dog in a funny clown costume). |
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We'll still need to work out the issue of whether this system generates enough power to support the production of food for a mouse, a cat, a dog, and a three-year-old child (and maintenance of the dog's clown costume). |
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Seeing as how mousetraps normally are intended to be the end of the line for the mouse, feeding it may not be an issue. |
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As far as the other animal afterburners, I suspect that feeding will be required by law. I did a little research into the invention of a dog-generator, but it got such poor reviews that I eventually deleted it. |
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Perhaps some day, with more precise figures, and a better grasp of the Halfbakery humor, the world will be ready for my "Puppy Mill." idea. |
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