Sure, right after I write a short entry to be the end all of conciseness on energy generation, I see this video. Micro wind to energy. Nothing spins. It just vibrates up and down. And it is cheap at the micro level. I wonder how well this would size up.
And there have been concerns about birds being hurt by giant windmills. It would be much harder for them to be hurt by a vibrating belt.
This young kid, Shawn Frayne, won the 2007 Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics. I hope we see these in production everywhere and see this as a better way to generate electricity. This also seems to be a better way to generate power from wave energy as well since that is vibration as well.
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This video looks like something that might be of use for off the grid generation. Interesting, to say the least.