Can we use the vibrational energy in Robotic Machinery in the modern day factory to power up the lighting systems? Some robotic factories use $750,000 per year in lighting costs alone. That is a huge power outlay indeed, can we reduce this to almost zero? Is it possible to use the vibrations and bumps created by the machinery, causing small magnets to bounce or move along copper wire to light LED low wattage lights? Are such low-wattage lights powerful enough to light up a factory? Lets think out loud on this for a second? What if the power cables were along the floor or ceiling? The lights could be across it and many so they would be flickering, but so fast you would not see it; many together a .2-.5 watts. Using the electromagnetic leakage from the power cables to the robotic machinery? The lights would be clumped together like a composite eye on an insect or lobster? Or like those new headlights on some cars. If each small tiny lighting component had its own line across funneled into the composite grouping then the flickering would be reduced and cancel each other out? Is it possible? Then there is also other similar technology: Currently there are some nifty micro-flashlights being used which you can buy which use a similar technique and are available thanks to the Everlight Flashlight technology research lab. These smaller flashlights work by shaking them for about thirty seconds and shine for about 6 minutes and they shine quite bright since they use a very bright LED light. Here is a link to this home use flashlight: http://demo.physics.uiuc.edu/LectDemo/scripts/demo_descript.idc?DemoID=1138 Hey I had a thought since it is a magnet why would it have to slide or touch anything ever, it could remain suspended, and by doing so reducing the friction it could move by vibration only? Or allow for a thin film on the ceiling to vibrate. The robotic factories and warehouses I have been in are vibrating all over the place. You can feel it in your head, the buzzing. It seems such a design can work on vibration only it is only a matter of the size of the vibration and the redesigning or morphing of the unit? There must be a static issue in these plants, can't we take all this energy and use it? The vibrations could be linked with an acoustic transducer using the static energy and send the vibration where needed. How much vibration is there? Which type of vibration is happening? What if a wire with a spool on it in a long thin tube, moved the magnet on it; then you have your source right? And for those robotic arms, which swing, weld, move parts across the factory floor, if multi collection points are introduced you could collect it all; all the vibrational energy that is. You would be using the power grid for the machines along with hydraulics and the static and vibrational energy for lighting and everything else under low wattage and call yourself a Multitrician? You could also use Electromagnetic energy or even the power needed for the CPUs of the robotic brains, well that would be pushing it, but it should theoretically be possible? Think on this, why turn it off. |
