That up above is a hamster, boys and girls! The photo is from a science article over at Pravda – a name usually associated with bakelite plastic products and cast-iron outhouse seats!
It seems that those sneaky researchers at Georgia Tech in the US have harnessed hamster-power! Here – check it out:
US scientists at Georgia Tech have learned to use an unusual kind of energy generated by hamsters running in their wheels, British news agencies reported. Scientists put special miniature vests with sensors on the rodents and connected them to a nanogenerator to convert the biomechanical power to electric power. The authors of the experiment say that one of the hamsters generated one-twentieth of the power of a standard AA battery.
Now I happen to know a bit about power and energy and other such exotica as I lack all of the above, usually, unless I eat a lot of sugar and drink more than one cup of coffee. A twentieth of the power out of a typical AA cell is about 0.15W for an hour! That is about enough to drive an earphone of a Walkman for one CD’s-worth of music.
But that’s neither here nor there! This is Science! Look at this chart I pulled from the Duracell site:
Delivered energy from a MnO2 AA cell
Looks to me as if the Pravda article is missing sumpin! Like – y’know – a time measure on that wattage? As in Watt-hours! How long can that li’l hamster keep it up – this energy generation effort?
In spite of the fact that the amount of energy received in such an unusual way is very small (a thousand hamsters would be necessary to charge a cell phone), scientist hope that the rodent power will contribute to the studies of the use of human power and the power of large animals.
Now wait a minute! A thousand of ‘em adds up to:
1000 x 0.15W = 150W.
Whoa! It doesn’t take any 150W to charge a cellphone. It takes about a 5W charge rate for about 1-4 hours (depending), which is no more than 20W-h!
So I guess the hamster can only generate 0.15W for about:
60 minutes x 20 / 150 = 8 minutes. I’ll buy that!
Lead researcher Zhong Lin Wang (pronounced Zhong Lin Wang) said that it was the first-ever demonstration of energy received with the help of animals and a nanodevice. The scientist said that nanotechnologies would soon allow to implant special chips in(to) dildos and other sex toys clothes to capture the energy of rampant sexual ardor a human being.
So – like the movie Matrix – they think they’ll stick us all into a giant battery along with a shitload of hamsters to run their thinking machines! Hah! I’ll take the green pill and trick ‘em!
Nanotechnology, which is sometimes shortened to “Nanotech” when its not completely ignored , refers to a field whose theme is the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller – which is what most scientists call “really really itty-bitty” - , and involves developing materials or devices within that size.
I don’t have to worry about Pravda putting me to work on the hamster treadmill because Harbqll provided me with this photo above! I can’t see ‘em, but I bet she has a pair of really big D-cells!
The mushrooms above are atomic-powered and generate as much energy as three gerbils.
Ew. Licking the microphone, dood? You don’t know where that thing has been!
He’s gonna get a wart. The frog toad critter – I mean. That’s one of those cane toads, innit? Will an M-80 blow one up?
Check out this teeth action:
I wonder what happened to the hat belonging to the third one and the one on the right? Ate it, perhaps…
The above babe is Sarah Jean Underwood! I used to post nekkid photos of her back in the bad ol’ porn days! I didn’t realize it was her until I just now posted it and looked at the photo name. Courtesy of Playboy – I guess.
I’ve asked this before and never got an answer – but, why is lingerie pronounced long -jer-ray instead of linger-eee like it’s spelled? ‘Cause it’s fucking French?
Jeez!







March 4, 2009 at 6:17 am
Poor Sarah Jean got no teeth.
March 4, 2009 at 8:20 am
Yeah McGoo, without a time scale, that chart looked like the Dow Jones. That garden of tit mushrooms is impressive. If I had that, I wouldn’t need the teeth girls of Miss Underwear 2008. Not that I could get any of them without wearing a disguise.
March 4, 2009 at 9:26 am
Is Miss Underwear where I got the photo? I don’t doubt it, but don’t remember. I can’t wait ’til Easter. I’m gonna hide my own eggs!
Cbullitt – the chart (from Duracell – not Pravda) does have a time reference – the vertical “Watt-Hours” scale. I was referring to the article as not having one. Energy = wattage * time.
Off to Cape Girardeau (120 mi round trip) to get reading material. Can you believe there is not a really decent bookstore within 60 miles of here? There is one in Poplar Bluff (65 mi round trip), but the chances of me seeing more than one-two books there I want is slim. I need a months supply – which says Barnes & Noble or Borders.
March 4, 2009 at 9:32 am
Good hunting on the book store trek, I am beginning celebration of Alpha Proixima Day, which I guess will last another two-and-a-half weeks. Details over at Soylent Green.
March 4, 2009 at 9:35 am
I just posted a comment over at your place, cbullitt.
I will be putting in a shameless plug for your site in my next post. Meanwhle, anyone reading this comment, go here. Now.
There. That might get you 2 – maybe even 3 new readers, cbullitt. You’re welcome!
March 4, 2009 at 10:05 am
If I were paying to educate my son at Georgia Tech… I’d request a refund!!! All my wisecracks about “my hamsters running as fast as they can”, have been robbed of the humor value because of the jerks! I wonder if they had earmark funding for this crap????
March 4, 2009 at 10:32 am
The good thing with Amazon is it doesn’t matter where you are, there is always a bookstore available (had stuff delivered to me while on the road). But there is no substitute to wandering through a stack of books…pulling something down, flipping through the pages…seeing a reference to another book you’ve never heard of and wanting to find it…
And yep, because it’s fucking French. Linge, or linen. Although obviously the best stuff is something other than linen. Would you say that lingerie is successful if isn’t worn for long?
March 4, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Ah, poor, poor Sarah Jean. Looks like she’s been airbrushed into the realm of Barbie anatomy.
Either that or she’s got bilateral athelia. And was born muslim, and had her snootch sewn shut as a child.
My heart goes out to the poor thing.
March 4, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Thanks for the love, McGoo.
March 4, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Ken – ya hit the nail on the head. I love wandering around in a bookstore, picking up volumes at random, finding rare gems – or books I simply missed when they came out – and … *ah* … the New Stuff!
But I’m gonna have to start ordering online, especially if the market keeps descending.
Harqbll – I noticed right away that she was missing some parts. Odd, that….perhaps we should make a Missing Snooch Report. Terrible thing – having someone abscond with a loved one’s snooch…
You be welcome, cbullitt!
March 4, 2009 at 6:08 pm
YAY! FDIC could be insolvent this year!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=alsJZqIFuN3k
Let’s see, collapse the banking system….raise taxes on those filthy rich, more on unemployment….collapse charities via taking away deductions of such, more on government teat at an overall increased cost….ration health care….
Yeah, the dirty f*cker is doing it purpose.
March 4, 2009 at 6:09 pm
amazon.com, McGoo. Spend $25 or more, get free shipping. Though any collapse might take them down too.
March 4, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Oh, forgot the energy thing too. Besides bankrupting coal…
Obama wants to eliminate entirely the IDC deduction and depreciation for oil companies.
The new Obama budget says it will be an expense oil companies must eat.
It will shut down new drilling in the United States, including most wells in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil can be imported from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, of course at a higher cost because of reduced world supply as US production drops. Natural gas is harder to transport long distances, requiring expensive liquefaction plants to allow tankers to carry it across oceans.
Can’t wait for those heating bills.
http://www.ogj.com/display_article/354687/7/ONART/none/GenIn/1/Divisions-form-over-oil,-gas-provisions-in-Obama-budget/
March 4, 2009 at 6:37 pm
PnB – you’re just full of good news!
Yep! The Quicker-Fucker-Upper is wasting no time! Kinda makes me wonder what his historical legacy will be.
One thing for sure – I was wrong. He’s no Jimmy “Peanut” Carter. Carter was a national headcold: The O’Ring is closer to Bubonic plague.
Question is; how soon with the other western nations crash and burn. I know all the socialist ones (France, Sweden, Spain, etc) are on the ragged edge.
We’ll be having riots here by summer. Glad I’m out in the country.
March 4, 2009 at 6:38 pm
PnB, this assclown said he was going to do all this shit during the campaign–especially bankrupting anyone trying to build a refinery.
He wants gas to be $10 a gallon–and with his Cap and Trade Ponzi scheme it will be higher that that.
And ALgore will be laughing all the way to the bank–his own of course because no others will have any assets.
I called my blog Soylent Green for a reason.
March 4, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Hey McGoo, I don’t think people appreciate my new holiday idea. I thought it was in the While E. Coyote super-genius range myself, but then I’m humble. Thanks again for the pimpage.
March 4, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Well, I liked the idea.
Didja get many hits on your blog?
I think my first week I got 17 hits. Total.
March 4, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Yeah, PnB even dropped by and left a comment on Alpha Proxima Day.
Got major pimpage from Wyatt at Support Your Local Gunfighter–complete with art from the Simsons. You should take a look at it. But he also said I was giving away nubile wenches to the first visitors.
I referred them to you.
March 5, 2009 at 2:07 am
It’s 2 in the a.m.! Where am I gonna get nubile wenches at this time of the night!
Oy!
March 5, 2009 at 2:33 am
Cbullitt – is there any reason you don’t link Climate Audit along with the other AGW/climate change skeptic sites?
And another thing: you need an avatar. I will find you one! Like this!