{"id":286,"date":"2008-02-27T07:03:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T12:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2008-02-27T07:03:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T12:03:30","slug":"the-vibration-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"The vibration harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/vibration-harvester.jpg\" title=\"Vibration harvester\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/vibration-harvester.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Vibration harvester\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All them turbines, drills and shakers in our modern factories make one almighty din.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re talking about a substantial amount of a-jumpin and a-jiggling which generally goes to waste. Couldn&#8217;t there be a way of harvesting this energy so that it can be re-used?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out Tom Sterken and pals at IMEC, an independent nanostuff research lab in Belgium, have thought of a way to do it and have built a device that can do it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a MEMs gadget that consists of a tiny mass on a spring connected to a capacitor. As the mass bounces around, it generates a voltage which is stored by the capacitor.<\/p>\n<p>When attached to an (unspecified) piece of industrial equipment, Sterken says his device generates  90 nanowatts of power. That doesn&#8217;t seem much: it&#8217;s  not going to recharge your mobile phone or ipod.<\/p>\n<p>But it might power the sensors needed to monitor this and other devices. And these harvesters can only get better.<\/p>\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0802.3060\">arxiv.org\/abs\/0802.3060<\/a>: Characterisation of an Electronic Vibration Harvester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All them turbines, drills and shakers in our modern factories make one almighty din. We&#8217;re talking about a substantial amount of a-jumpin and a-jiggling which generally goes to waste. Couldn&#8217;t there be a way of harvesting this energy so that it can be re-used? Turns out Tom Sterken and pals at IMEC, an independent nanostuff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mean-machines","category-the-ant-playground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arxivblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}