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I think that the reason this new idea came from someone outside of Physics or Electrical Engineering is because its poor efficiency is obvious to people with a

• gdilla 13y ago
  Reminds me of sitting in a Larry Smith [1] lecture 14 years ago, where he mentioned the real key to innovating is for people who can look outside their discipline and find links or problems in another discipline that could use their experience, knowledge and fresh take on solving it. [1] http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_have_a_great_career.html http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_smith_why_you_will_fail_to_ha...
• kiba 13y ago
  If you have really low power sensors, you could use the technology to power it indefinitely in conjunction with other power generating modules.
• VLM 13y ago
  "its poor efficiency is obvious" Train everyone in a discipline that everything must be green. This idea of turning perhaps 99 watts into heat and 1 watt into battery charge is terribly non-green. "Everything must be green" is the cognitive filter which had to be overcome. In cold climates, especially if you have electric heating, turning electricity mostly into heat is not as much of a loss as you'd think, anyway. In areas of Canada with cheap hydro and electric baseboard heating, its probably a great idea.
• bobbles 13y ago
  It's kind of like the common mistake people make just getting into saving and investing. This is where they are calculating everything on a 'per month' basis, not realising that the interest rate is done annually.