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Atheists are smart people who tend to be literate and
like to express themselves via language, much of it digital
text.
This is a system for energy extraction that consists of
keyboard springs that make the keys on a keyboard a
little harder to depress, but create a little bit of energy
every
time they are depressed and channel this energy
through the connection from the computer to the wall,
to the energy grid, paying atheists for their contributions
and creating surplus energy for everyone.
Equal and opposite etc
Theogermal_20energy
[not_morrison_rm, Jun 05 2013]
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Typical force on an old-style (heavy) keyboard =
0.5N, travel = 5mm. Assume that "a little harder
to depress" means doubling both force and
distance, 1N x 10mm. Assume 100% energy
recovery = 0.01J. |
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Assume 5 characters per second = 0.05J/s = 50mW
of harvestable energy per atheist. |
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// every time they are depressed |
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How can you tell if they are depressed? |
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Usually if they are writing a lot about atheism. |
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// 50mW of harvestable energy per atheist // |
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Not bad for running the keyboard itself ! My wireless keyboard is ready to attach the depression/voltage converter. Now I need to improve my atheism. |
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It also seems that by simply semantically tagging
various arguments on the internet, these
repeated
arguments could be automated. That's a lot of
monitors which would not need to be on,
easily offsetting any additional processing power
consumed in the argument automation. |
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//Surely the faithful have more fervour ?// |
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I think we have proven as much. |
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the zealot seems to have detected our scheme. the ideas are getting shorter and shorter. we. are. running.. low. on.... power. |
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Can't help wondering at "zealot" and "ocelot". There's must be some connection... |
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Actually, "ocelot" comes from the Nahuatl word
"ocelotl", reflecting its shared ancestry with the
axolotl. |
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