Alternative Power

Initial Ideas

• http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/artificial-leaf-produces-energy-dirty-water.html
• http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tax+changes+alarm+UK+art+market/23221
• Death Race 2000
• http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/12210/if-the-machines-are-powered-by-humans-what-powers-zion
• electrolysis - http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/split_h2o.html
• http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Skyscraper-Concept-Generates-Hydrogen-Power,news-10422.html
• http://www.sadanduseless.com/2011/03/world-in-2000/
• http://pureenergysystems.com/store/Sun_Oven/villager.htm
• Dynamo - http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Build-A-Bicycle-Generator/
• http://news.yahoo.com/chemist-hopes-artificial-leaf-power-civilization-using-photosynthesis-173654018--abc-news-tech.html
• http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/07/artificial-leaf-synthetic-photosynthesis
• piezoelectric (pressure induced voltage), nor pyroelectric (heat-change induced voltage), petrovoltaic.
• http://mentalfloss.com/article/30140/acdc-tesla%E2%80%93edison-feud
• http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/projects/split_h2o.html
• http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Art-world-up-in-arms-at-light-bulb-law/22179
• http://connection.ebscohost.com/science/alternative-energy-exploration/history-alternative-and-renewable-energy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_energy
• http://pureenergysystems.com/store/Sun_Oven/villager.htm
• http://inventorspot.com/articles/hydra_tower_earth_shattering_skyscraper_harnesses_hydrogen_light
• http://www.behance.net/gallery/Hydra-Skyscraper-Tesla-research-facility/1108779
• Petravoltaic - http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Petravoltaic_--_Electricity_from_Rocks
• http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuae/manual/basics.html
• http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/06/chemist-hopes-artificial-leaf-can-power-civilization-using-photosynthesis/
• The process plants carry out to sustain themselves can be modeled as a system humans can mimic as well. While the carbohydrates produced by plants through photosynthesis does not apply to our energy needs, this process can be modified to produce hydrogen. Artificial photosynthesis mimics an extremely efficient process that bacteria, algae, and plants use to produce renewable energy resources.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_photosynthesis
• http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1hcwzw/ peltier tiles

Stirling Engine

• http://stirlingbuilder.com/
• https://diy.org/skills/mechanicalengineer/challenges/717/

Thermoelectric

• The underlying effect is usually called the Seebeck effect if you're using a temperature differential to generate electricity, and the Peltier effect if you're using electricity to generate a temperature differential.
• http://www.gizmag.com/power-pocket-charger/27914/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12137680
• http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1981919,00.html
• http://www.businessinsider.com/david-carroll-on-thermoelectric-fabrics-2013-4
• http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1hcwzw/
• They utilize the thermoelectric effect. When a temperature difference exists across a material, charge carriers will start to diffuse from hot to cold. The separation of charges causes a potential difference across the material. The magnitude of the thermoelectric effect depends on the material. Semiconductors can be doped to have electron mobility or hole mobility (this is n- and p-doping, respectively). This makes sure that either negative or positive charge carriers primarily diffuse.
• http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/07/nanotech-body-heat-technology-breakthroughs-devices.html
• http://www.allqa.com/IR.htm
• http://www.diginfo.tv/v/12-0224-r-en.php
• http://makezine.com/projects/heat-exchanger/ heat exchanger
• Panasonic has developed a revolutionary hot water pipe that can actually turn the heat into usable electricity, as long as there's also a source of cold water. The conversion process relies on the temperature difference between the hot and cold water, and since the entire pipe is used to harness heat, the power output is three or four times higher than previous efforts. In fact, just four four-inch tubes can generate enough electricity to power a portable television, so large-scale installations could result in significant power savings for a buildind. But the laws of the universe are still in place, and since energy is required to heat the water in the first place, the pipes might not actually be a benefit when used in private homes. However, in factories where hot water is created as a waste product, or areas where hot geothermal springs are easily accessible, it could be a fantastic source of nearly free energy.
• http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429263/new-material-could-make-thermoelectric-power-practical/
• http://gizmodo.com/5972587/thermoelectric-pipes-can-generate-electricity-from-hot-water

• Forum for the Future’s Head of Built Environment, Martin Hunt, notes that “Geothermal technologies have been around for a long time and are commercially viable. It looks like this application of heat recapture technology will only make sense in busy public spaces, but if the numbers stack up I can see it could be used on a wider scale.”
• http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~khirata/academic/kiriki/begin/history.html

History of Thermoelectrics

• http://www.thermoelectrics.caltech.edu/thermoelectrics/history.html
• http://www.jondetech.com/documents/thermopiles.html

• Micropelt
• http://www.arroweurope.com/markets-solutions/solutions/energy-harvesting.html

Wireless Electricity

• WiTricity
• https://www.circuitlab.com/circuit/35b3bc/witricity/
• http://www.witricitypower.com/experiment.html
• http://www.tfcbooks.com/articles/witricity.htm

• http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~cremaldi/PHYS417/Seebeck%20and%20Peltier%20Effects.pdf

Energy Harvesting

• http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/10/play/patently-untrue
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid#Origin_of_the_term_.22smart_grid.22
• http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-02-25/japan-matrix-now-reality-humans-are-used-living-batteries
• http://www.studiolighting.net/mit-scientists-prove-wireless-electricity-works/
• http://hotair.com/archives/2013/11/10/harvesting-electricity-from-wasted-radio-waves/

• http://www.embedded.com/design/connectivity/4421442/Wireless-energy-harvesting--how-to-get-something-from-nothing

• Rectenna - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectenna
• "There is nothing in this that would have prevented them inventing this 10 or even 20 years ago," commented Professor Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London who has seen the experiments. "But I think there is an issue of time. In the last few years we have seen an exponential growth of mobile devices that need power. The power cable is the last wire to be cut in a wireless connection." - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6725955.stm
• monitoring neurons in brain, brain's electricity is only 20-100 microvolts, too small, but one person did map it out to produce an epilepsy song
• body heat, joule thief, thermoelectrics

Getting closer

• Designing a fictional history in which an artist is contracted to redesign an electrical company. the artwork is the redesign of the organisation which will design the next electrical company and generator product. a slightly decentralised solution. it needs to be mass production, scalable.
• Franchising, turn key operation
• a world in which stirling engine and other thermoelectrics were more popular?
• blinking?
• energy harvesting + wireless energy transmission (distributed generation) -> driving forward miniaturisation -> providing infinite power to the internet of things
• good points of wireless energy is that it has a long operating life and no battery maintenance with this

See also

• http://www.diginfo.tv/