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Use the same theroy as a coo coo clock w/a large counterweight and a series of sprockets to turn a generator or even alternator to prouduce power. I figure you would need atleast 4000 rpm to get enough power. You shure wouldent want to wind it more than twice a day. So if there are any clock makers
out there i need someone to help do the math.
Clockwork- the new power source
http://www.halfbake...ew_20power_20source
"run everything off clockwork" [phoenix, Oct 17 2004]
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a coo coo clock has a little pigeon thats sings out every hour. sweet. |
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I can take out a pigeon on a coocoo clock at 50 paces, while sleepwalking. |
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It isn't the RPM, its the force of the spring, or weight. |
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Hand-winding any sort of spring or lifting a weight to power a generator to produce about 50 amps of continous AC current isn't what I would call fun, or even possible for a single person, even if you wound 24 hours a day. |
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The average human can generate 125 watts of power in real time, or enough to light a couple of light bulbs. |
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//with what?//
Why, a peashooter, of course. |
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I thought of hurricane-proofing houses by putting them
on turntables so they would spin and dissipate the wind
energy. But if you could use that rotary motion to
generate energy, more better. |
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