Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #02218
To: grant mckee gmbeam@hotmail.com, beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Dennison dennlill@buffnet.net
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:24:15 -0400
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: wind and other sources of power
Ok, let me correct this before this get's out of hand. Radio waves are in NO
WAY related to sound. No way, no how nothing. There are as different as eggs
and solarcells. There is absolutly nothing relating them to each other.
Sound is preasure energy, travelling in compression waves. It has very
limited range. And can only opperate in dense enviroments.
Radio waves are Electromagnetic Radiation. Radio waves are related to LIGHT
not sound.
And realistically, I don't think there is much of a way to gain power from
the wind for a robot. For wind feilds to be effective you need many many
generators just because you don't always get power, there isn't always a
breeze and it's rarely very strong.
Dennison
>I was thinking that there might be some way to harness the power in
>radio waves? if you think about it all it is is a really high pitch
>sound. pehaps the frequency it too high to be usefull tho.
>
>
>That's the problem with nature. Someing's always stinging you or
>oozing mucous on you.
>
>Calvin and Hobbes by Bill watterson
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