Everything is Energy

In order to understand ways for harvesting energy, one must first know the laws of Phisics. The most important of them all is that nothing's gain, nothing's lost, everything changes. Another one, that is my favourite:

Everything is Energy!

Even matter seems to be nothing more but energy! This knoledge is vey important because it allows one to broaden the spectrum of resources to a wh*** new level, inspiring the impossible to be just an obstacle no longer overestimated.

Being the objective of Act3 to power something I use every day, I spend a little time thinking about it and was immediately overflown with several ways of collecting energy.

The first one I thought of was the bathroom, wonder if all that light wasted could have come from a more convenient source? During the shower there is a lot of energy used, one of them is the pressure of the water, a simple generator atached to the pipes could harvest some of that energy to power LED lights, or even the steam can be used for a low power generator.

Another one is the human being itself, there are already watches powered by the movement of the arm, what about MP3's and iPods? maybe they could include those small genetators on the bottom of the trousers to power them and recharge phones? Maybe a too High tech solution for the moment.

What we really want is to give power to people who dont have any. An resorcefull, more affordable one is required. So we must look for energy sources in the nature. Lets think of tropical regions for a while, it's a peek of life in there, so many rivers for a watermill, so much sun for solar pannels, or the chemical reactions of decomposition make the forests around an exelent source of energy, and there is no need for cutting down trees, since there is a lot of materials usefull already on the ground, a rain collector could also power small watermills, since the rain is so intense.

What about desert regions? No need to think too much, with all that heat, sun and sand! Thermal sistems such has solar thermal pannels, pipes running along the desert sand transforming some fluid a vapour to provide power to a generator, photovoltaic pannels... the possibilitys are endless.

All that is needed is a little imagination and the will to transform a dream into reality!