{"id":13506,"date":"2013-04-22T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13506"},"modified":"2013-04-22T03:00:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T08:00:33","slug":"nothing-new-under-the-sun-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13506","title":{"rendered":"Nothing New Under the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=pavement-pounders-at-paris-marathon-generate-power\">Energy-Harvesting Street Tiles Generate Power from Pavement Pounder<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The marathon runners generated 4.7 kilowatt-hours of energy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a little more than fifty cents&#8217; worth of electricity<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12292\">commented on this system<\/a>, but I&#8217;ll sum up:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s converting roughly a dollar&#8217;s worth of food into a penny&#8217;s worth of electricity. If they weren&#8217;t stealing the energy from people, this would never save anyone any money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The energy they steal is not green, so this energy is not, despite the effort to &#8220;launder&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s still not clear how long it would take to save enough to pay for such a system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy-Harvesting Street Tiles Generate Power from Pavement Pounder The marathon runners generated 4.7 kilowatt-hours of energy That&#8217;s a little more than fifty cents&#8217; worth of electricity I&#8217;ve already commented on this system, but I&#8217;ll sum up: &#8211; It&#8217;s converting roughly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13506\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}