Human energy expenditure can be measured in meaningful units, is one possible message of this May 1938 article in Popular Science: Meter Gauges Work in Bread-Slice Units How rapidly exercise uses up the energy in the food you eat is graphically demonstrated by a device called the “bread-o-meter” at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. […]
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Profiling Professor Persinger – part 3
Can ‘Reality’ be ‘Bifurcated’? If so, what would be the energy required to do so? Could a human brain bifurcate reality? And, if one brain had managed to achieve the critical threshold energy to do so, would other observers existing within the same space-time frame also perceive related phenomena? All these questions are examined by […]
Further Info for Skyscraper Stairway Climbers
Upper floor residents of skyscrapers, at least those upper floor residents who habitually climb stairs rather than ride elevators to their homes, can find useful information in this new study: “The Energy Expenditure of Stair Climbing One Step and Two Steps at a Time: Estimations from Measures of Heart,” Lewis G. Halsey, David A. R. […]
Implementing a knee-energy harvester
“The modern drive towards mobility and wireless devices is motivating intensive research in energy harvesting technologies.” say two research fellows at Cranfield University in the UK, who are currently examining the question – ‘Why not harvest energy from people’s knees?’ Building on their previous research into plucked piezoelectric bimorphs for energy harvesting applications, Dr. Michele […]