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September 17, 2007 5:01 AM PDT

Human energy harvesting--a very silly idea

by Peter Glaskowsky

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"Power to the people" was a popular rallying cry among anti-establishment activists in the 1960s.

"Power from the people" appears to be the latter-day equivalent.

The theory behind the slogan is that humans move around a lot, and the only result of all this motion is that the humans end up in a different place.

According to some, this isn't good enough.

The MIT News reports that two MIT graduate students in architecture have proposed to extract energy from the motion of humans through ... Read more

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Tags:: Parasitic power,; MIT,; Zarlink,; OLPC

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Silicon Valley-based computer architect and chip analyst Peter N. Glaskowsky attends a variety of industry conferences throughout the year to meet with industry thought leaders and dig into the future of computing technology. In Speeds and Feeds, he analyzes trends in system architecture and interface design, as well as market and political pressures surrounding those trends. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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