Re:Solar and Wind Energy May Be Nice, but How Can We Store It?
by cellularmitosis on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @09:18PM
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A clip and pulley system which could hook onto a barbell or kettle bell would be great.
Hrmm, perhaps this isn't so feasible. Performing a clean & jerk of 95 pounds to a height of 7 feet would yield about 900 watt seconds of potential energy. So even if you had a very efficient laptop (15 watts) and perfect energy conversion, you'd have to perform a clean & jerk every 60 seconds to keep computing. Even if you were in good shape, you probably couldn't keep that up for more than a hour.
Hrmm, perhaps this isn't so feasible. Performing a clean & jerk of 95 pounds to a height of 7 feet would yield about 900 watt seconds of potential energy. So even if you had a very efficient laptop (15 watts) and perfect energy conversion, you'd have to perform a clean & jerk every 60 seconds to keep computing. Even if you were in good shape, you probably couldn't keep that up for more than a hour.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/gpot.html