{"id":4555,"date":"2010-01-19T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4555"},"modified":"2010-01-19T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T08:00:09","slug":"watts-up-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4555","title":{"rendered":"Watt&#039;s Up With That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/01\/ces-2010-yogen-makes-a-splash-in-pull-string-charging.php\">YoGen Makes a Splash in Pull-String Charging<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 5 Watt charge can be generated with a very easy pull of the string. It doesn&#8217;t matter how fast or slow you pull, the same charge is generated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I also got a demonstration of their prototype pedal-powered charger for laptops, which is reportedly capable of a 50 Watt charge, with just an easy push of a pedal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem, of course, is that Watts is a unit of power, not energy, which is what they mean by &#8220;charge.&#8221;    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YoGen Makes a Splash in Pull-String Charging A 5 Watt charge can be generated with a very easy pull of the string. It doesn&#8217;t matter how fast or slow you pull, the same charge is generated. \u2026 I also got &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4555\">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":[39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","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=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}