energy-harvesting device Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:15:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Harvesting Energy From Small Vibrations for Use in Pacemakers and Implants https://www.greenoptimistic.com/harvesting-energy-small-vibrations-pacemakers-implants-20100324/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/harvesting-energy-small-vibrations-pacemakers-implants-20100324/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:15:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7151 University of Michigan researchers, at their Engineering Research Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems, have just created highly efficient some energy-harvesting devices that use the energy from surrounding arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/harvesting-energy-small-vibrations-pacemakers-implants-20100324/feed/ 1 7151 Researchers Develop Device to Convert Vibrations Into Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/researchers-develop-device-to-convert-vibrations-into-electricity-20091202/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/researchers-develop-device-to-convert-vibrations-into-electricity-20091202/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:37:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5610 Bristol University researchers have developed a new way to provide free energy to businesses and homes. They have created a new type of energy-harvesting device that makes use of non-linear springs and mass.

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