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Is there a place where like-minded Quirks can discuss topics of a particular interest. I don't really want to spend my time thinking about "layered boot rack" or "measuring food container"
Also, why can't I see my sent messages?
Sorry if this is obvious or obnoxious, I am newish.
Sure what problems are you working on now?
you remind me of me when i first came to quirky, i wanted to meet smart intelligent people and have intellectual decisions about things that matters.
but quirky killed my inner Einstein and now all i have is my inner Martha Stewart.
PS: i only been here for 2 month!!!
I think we can knock out two big birds with one stone. We are on the verge of a major energy problem and in the U.S. and we have an obesity issue.
Human-powered electric generation gets little attention, but could solve help solve a huge and growing problem.
We just need enough minds to focus on the best way to make it happen.
Powerleap is a idea that could have been so much more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ES&feature=related&hl=es&v=FzQwj2e3rLw
http://www.powerleap.net/images/press.html
Looks pretty cool for sure. I think you will see something just like powerleap when the price is right.
I say go old school. Spring, flywheel and human-power.
there has to be a fair amount of energy to harness maybe someone can do the math. My rough guess is the average person(male,female and kids) weighs 150lb, walks at about 5ft a second and lifts there foot about 1 inch off the ground. Any physics experts want to solve it to get the potential energy available?
Giant hamster exercise wheel, large enough for several hundred people walk on, walk around, walk off.... interact, listen to music, get some exercise.... DONE
Walk closer to the front edge of the wheel, ramp gets steeper, more exercise, walk back, relax.
@Walid - LOL, Martha Stewart,
Kitchen, Bathroom, and Utility Room ideas are where it's at.
Not bad Copper, even if it was a joke. It would not even need to be a full circle, just a treadmill on an incline. Folks could walk up to the top and just ride down, gravity works.
im trying to add stuff to make you lot think its falling on deaf ears i think...eat big macs, consume to the max,ahhh q well. at least i tried? conor keep going like you attitude
What americans need to do to kill those 2 ugly birds, energy and obesity crisis, is to put a tax on sugar and on whatever else is on junk food that makes it addictive to then make McDonalds and Taco Bell products more expensive, like cigarretes and alcohol. All that money goes to save your country in 2 ways: it gets money for the deficit (medicare) and it also saves money from being sucked into medical bills (via healthy people). Hey, enough time goes by and americans become healthy again that they can use the extra money to subsidize jobs and get them back from China. Sugar and corn starch or whatever is in McDonalds creates the vicious circle, tax it and it becomes a virtuous circle.
people are so lazy they need a powered treadmill to help them walk, i say use real hamsters, how many kilowatts would get out of a million hamsters anyway??
@theclaw Taxes are not the answer. Alcohol and tobacco taxes are already exploiting addiction for profit.
@walid Lazy people can just do what they always do as the world passes by.
Conor there is a big difference between reality and how should things be, i mean over here we make fun of people in other countries and we call them third world countries because they are poor and don't have the "machines" that do things for them, it's really sad but it's the truth.
there's a human powered car and a human power laundry machines..
but the odds of ever seeing one in the united states are zero
The tax is only half of the solution, the other half is making sugar and junk food in general expensive, thats the point of the tax, to compensate the people for a product that hurts the country like alcohol and tobacco does. Just wonder whats the cost of diabetes to the country, in medical costs and in less productivity. People dont realize the damage food corporations are doing to the world pushing and lobbying to put whatever they want in food, including addictive substances. If alcohol and tobbaco are exploiting addiction its irrelevant, sugar is doing it too and thats what the tax is for, to have money to compensate for the problems it causes.
