new piezoelectric device Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:06:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Teenager Develops $5 Device to Harness Wind and Solar Power https://www.greenoptimistic.com/teenager-develops-affordable-solar-wind-harnesser-20161025/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/teenager-develops-affordable-solar-wind-harnesser-20161025/#respond Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:06:21 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60680 Thirteen years old Maanasa Mendu developed a $5-wind and solar hybrid system to generate renewable energy. Teenagers often manage to amaze us with their forward thinking and incredible creativity. The inventions that they come up with can easily overtake those designed by the greatest of engineers. This is especially the case when we look at […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/teenager-develops-affordable-solar-wind-harnesser-20161025/feed/ 0 60680 Micro-Scaled Piezoelectric Device Harvests Electricity from Vibrations https://www.greenoptimistic.com/micro-scaled-piezoelectric-device-harvests-electricity-from-vibrations-20100101/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/micro-scaled-piezoelectric-device-harvests-electricity-from-vibrations-20100101/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:24:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6005 The world we live is full of f vibrating surfaces like train stations, dance floors and highways that that could yield a rich trove of clean, eco-friendly energy. It is called piezoelectric energy, formed by the conversion of mechanical strain into electricity.

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