/"It's irrelevant to study the amount of displacement. The important fact is that what ever energy is produced came from a person's expenditure! I think, other than for a novel experience, most people would abhor trudging around on energy sucking pavement."/ Abhor it? Really? I can see abhoring genocide, or nuclear war, but loosing a small amount of energy each step? Myself, I regularly hike 10 - 20 miles and 3000 - 6000 ft elevation gain, some of it through loose granite and/or talus where it is one step up, 1/2 step down, for the fun of it. I don't really think the energy loss to pavegen would bother me all that much.
Yes, I do understand conservation of energy Cor, no need to elaborate. A 1/2" displacement would certainly be noticeable. I was thinking it might be more like an order of magnitude less, and only a very small amount of energy gained with each step, requiring high traffic to amount to much energy. So with small displacement and small energy it would hardly be noticed. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/Re-EVLN-pavegen-com-tiles-charge-EV-from-human-foot-traffic-v-tp4676441p4676517.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)
