Re: Ideas for energy.

No, I don't know anything about thermoelectrics or solar. I once saw a video on youtube about recharging a Cell Phone by connecting wires to a potato (or maybe it was a citrus fruit), but I never got to experiment on alternate power generation at all.

From what I understand, EARTH BATTERIES are easy to make (videos on youtube).


The only plans I can find for a Mendocino motor are here...(price raised to $19.50, but email him for any price increase)...


http://mtinfopage.com/mendocin.htm


I don't know if a useful current could come from pezioelectricity except for lighting an L.E.D. for indoor solar power of the Mendocino motor.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectric


There are different kinds of L.E.D.s, there's even one from Edmund Scientific that can be held in the hand and will light up when you walk across a rug (static electricity).

If you have a junk yard near you and can get the generating coil from a mini bike and attach that to a stirling engine that has good speed, that would supply a decent voltage similar to a car cigarette lighter socket. Tweet