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I would like to have a power plant.

A power plant, powered by ourselves. No, not a power plant like in the matrix, but voluntarily and with full consciousness. My thoughts on clean energy production.

Author: Andre Wolf

We have known about energy recovery since childhood. For example on the bicycle dynamo. Admittedly, these things made cycling difficult when I was a child. However, a dynamo used the energy I released to generate the energy for the lighting system on the bike. Actually a great thing, such a small power plant!

A very similar principle is recuperation in electric cars. When braking or simply rolling, the electric motor becomes a generator and supplies the vehicle with energy.

But there is more. Because we are all constantly in the energy cycle. I would like to use the energy that I release every day when walking and running for my electronic devices. Charge my smartphone with it, feed power banks with it. Everything that a small power plant could create. No, this idea is neither revolutionary nor new. It is simply not promoted, developed or implemented enough. Obtaining energy from burning fossil fuels is apparently still too convenient. Unfortunately.

Gaining kinetic energy from your own body would be quite interesting. And this idea might turn one or two misers into athletes. “Every step a person takes generates between four and eight watts of energy,” says an article on the website Ingenieur.de . There are also these “ floor tile experiments ” where floor tiles generate electricity with every step. Here we are talking about 5 watts per step.

I'm not a physicist. At this point, I don't want to attempt to calculate my potential energy production from these values ​​in an amateurish way. But the energy generated should certainly be able to charge smartphones or similar small devices. If necessary, entire power banks. And these days there are a lot of devices that can be powered by USB and power banks.

No small “power plants” on the market

During my little research into generators that produce electricity through kinetic energy, I found a big problem. First of all, yes, there are already suggestions and ideas, and apparently also devices that can do this and could also be used in everyday life. But apparently there are no market-ready products. Example: The energy company Vattenfall describes such a product on its website that corresponds exactly to my thoughts:

The founders developed a small, ball-shaped generator the size of an apple. The mini power generator fits in every pocket. If it is made to rotate in circular motions, the mini power plant generates energy.

Problem: The text is outdated, the product was never ready for the market, the Hand.Energy website no longer exists, and the company's Twitter account has not been used since 2018. Ergo: What sounds great didn't actually appear. Vattenfall also noted this afterwards. Annoying. Because such a generator not only produces clean energy, but ultimately also cheap energy (depending on the payback).

And so I'm back at the beginning. I would like to have a power plant. I think we should all have one because we release kinetic energy every day that goes unused. It's a shame actually. There are certainly many problems and objections. But I don't want to think problem-oriented, but rather solution-oriented. And that's why I would like to be able to harness the energy from every step I take (in the not too distant future). This is certainly the absolute solution with regard to climate change or dependence on fossil fuels, but only one piece of the puzzle in the possibilities of clean energy production. But this idea shows what options we have.

In this respect, I think it's a shame that these ideas of small power plants, which turn kinetic energy into electrical energy, are being continued and developed ready for the market. They may be feasible, but what stands in their way?

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