Human-Powered Suits Generate Electricity In Space
source: http://crispgreen.com/2011/04/human-powered-suits-generate-electricity-in-space/
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Space and weight capacity are limited on a space shuttle. Some students are exploring ways that human movements can be used to generate power.
Every day we make hundreds of movements, all of which could be harnessed to generate energy for electronic devices: waving hello to someone, walking down the street, or bending down to tie your shoe.
Students participating in NASA's Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) project imagined a spacesuit that uses astronauts' expended energy to run the suit's electronics. The team, comprising Hannah Clevenson, Olivia Lenz and Tanya Miracle, recently flew an experiment related to their nanotechnology research on a NASA reduced-gravity flight.
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Every day we make hundreds of movements, all of which could be harnessed to generate energy for electronic devices: waving hello to someone, walking down the street, or bending down to tie your shoe.
Students participating in NASA's Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) project imagined a spacesuit that uses astronauts' expended energy to run the suit's electronics. The team, comprising Hannah Clevenson, Olivia Lenz and Tanya Miracle, recently flew an experiment related to their nanotechnology research on a NASA reduced-gravity flight.
Keep Reading: http://ow.ly/4wb4R
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