Here’s a Renewable Energy Claim for Your Amusement
Ever heard of piezoelectricity, the generation of electric charge in solid materials—such as quartz, ceramics, and bone—in response to applied mechanical stress?
It’s real, but it is very limited in scope, and thus it has zero potential application in our world, despite what the people at Pavegen are claiming.
If you don’t care what you pay for electricity, this makes perfect sense.
Hamsters running on wheels can be used to generate electric power too.
Craig — your correct as to it being basically very weak at it’s source.
But — using that very small initial voltage as the input voltage to multiples of stages of resonating tank circuits (and their series-resonant counterparts – remember the info I sent you) – much higher voltage levels, and thus amperage to what ever amount needed – can be developed for common use.
Been there- doing just that – just not starting with “piezo”.