http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/11/crowd-farm/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:14:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/11/crowd-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-25269 Adam Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:15:41 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2007/11/crowd-farm/#comment-25269 coppertop coppertop

]]> http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/11/crowd-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-12110 Raynos Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:21:55 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2007/11/crowd-farm/#comment-12110 I love this concept, but let's be honest - it's pure novelty. There's no way the energy put into building it would ever recoup what's generated. This is just for fun. I love this concept, but let’s be honest – it’s pure novelty. There’s no way the energy put into building it would ever recoup what’s generated. This is just for fun.

]]> http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/11/crowd-farm/comment-page-1/#comment-12109 Pablo Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:25:50 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2007/11/crowd-farm/#comment-12109 Keep in mind that you can't get something from nothing. By harvesting energy from the footstep of pedestrians you are causing them to expend more energy which must be replaced with food calories. Since far more fossil fuel energy goes into any food product than food energy comes out it is probably more efficient to just use that fossil fuel energy to make electricity. But if you happen to live in a overfed society where everyone consumers 1.5 x the daily calories that they actually need, then this would be a welcome bit of extra exercise... Keep in mind that you can’t get something from nothing. By harvesting energy from the footstep of pedestrians you are causing them to expend more energy which must be replaced with food calories. Since far more fossil fuel energy goes into any food product than food energy comes out it is probably more efficient to just use that fossil fuel energy to make electricity. But if you happen to live in a overfed society where everyone consumers 1.5 x the daily calories that they actually need, then this would be a welcome bit of extra exercise…

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