So do I - hike, climb (sometimes on loose talus). But there's a
difference between climbing for fun (and in nature) and walking around
home or work on a daily basis. Just look at how many people won't even
walk 5 blocks to the grocery! Don't believe me? Ask around.
Peri
------ Original Message ------
From: "tomw via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Sent: 25-Jun-15 5:55:00 PM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: pavegen.com tiles charge EV from human foot
traffic (v)
/"It's irrelevant to study the amount of displacement. The important
fact is
that what ever energy is produced came from a person's expenditure! I
think, other than for a novel experience, most people would abhor
trudging
around on energy sucking pavement."/
Abhor it? Really? I can see abhoring genocide, or nuclear war, but
loosing
a small amount of energy each step? Myself, I regularly hike 10 - 20
miles
and 3000 - 6000 ft elevation gain, some of it through loose granite
and/or
talus where it is one step up, 1/2 step down, for the fun of it. I
don't
really think the energy loss to pavegen would bother me all that much.
Yes, I do understand conservation of energy Cor, no need to elaborate.
A
1/2" displacement would certainly be noticeable. I was thinking it
might be
more like an order of magnitude less, and only a very small amount of
energy
gained with each step, requiring high traffic to amount to much energy.
So
with small displacement and small energy it would hardly be noticed.
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