% Fabric wrapped house, connected humans @the gym or dance club ... % http://finance.yahoo.com/news/clothes-could-soon-generate-electricity-212356518.html Your Clothes Could Soon Generate Electricity By Brandon Ballenger MoneyTalksNews.com
As new technologies often do, this sounds like something out of a sci-fi blockbuster: fabric that can soak up energy like a sponge, creating electricity just by being worn or left in the sun. But that’s what nanotechnologist David Carroll is working on at Wake Forest University and already testing out at home, Business Insider says. The quickest way to explain it might be with a hypothetical use described in Carroll’s own words: So I hop in my car and my phone battery is running low. I’m going to drive from here down to Raleigh (North Carolina) which is about an hour and a half. I set this (square of fabric attached to his phone) on my dashboard, the car vibrates — that generates power. And the dashboard’s hot — that also generates power. From both of those sources I collect additional power and soak that power into my battery. By the time I get into Raleigh my battery has about a 20 percent charge on it. The fabric is lightweight, flexible, washable, and feels like felt. Carroll imagines it could be sewn into clothing, applied to electronics, and wrapped around houses to generate extra electricity. It’s not efficient enough to replace traditional power sources, but it’s so cheap to make that it doesn’t really matter – it’s essentially free extra power. Carroll says enough fabric to cover a laptop would cost no more than a quarter, and he thinks it could be brought to market by next year. It would be especially useful in situations where power wasn’t readily available – such as camping or during a natural disaster. Placing a smartphone with a case using the fabric a safe distance from a heat source overnight could fully charge it. [© 2013 Money Talks News] [© 2013 Yahoo! All rights reserved] ... http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl203806q Multilayered Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composite Based Thermoelectric Fabrics - Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (3), DOI: 10.1021/nl203806q ... http://2045.com/news/30987.html Fabric with micro solar cells generates electricity 14.12.2012 ... http://www.businessinsider.com/power-felt-feeds-off-your-body-heat-to-generate-electricity-2012-8 Power Felt Feeds Off Your Body Heat To Generate Electricity Aug 20 2012 ... http://www.medgadget.com/2008/02/electricity_generating_fabric.html Electricity Generating Fabric Feb 14, 2008 ... details how pairs of textile fibers covered with zinc oxide nanowires generate electricity in response to applied mechanical stress ... For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Citroën Berlingo Electric Van @2013 CV Show r:170km ts:110kph EVLN: Vodafone smartphone M2M-empowers Mahindra e2o EV EVLN: Hollywood Electric backing e-motorcycle class @Pikes Peak EVLN: Polaris acquires Aixam, French EV & ice quadricycle maker + EVLN: $21k FL police spin an iMiev {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Fabric-Electricity-supplies-the-grid-which-charges-the-EV-tp4662561.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
