Interesting Ways of Creating Energy

Energy is generally generated by creating motion to drive a turbine. This is often done by creating heat which produces stream that drives the turbine, with 80% of the world’S energy created in something approaching this method. Nuclear power is one example of this.

We are constantly trying to come up with new ways of creating energy. The actual production of energy can be done fairly easily; it is just that you need to create enough to drive everything we need. There are some interesting ways of creating energy and below are some of these, some of which have been put into practice and some of which haven’t.

Kite Powered Car

A kit powered car has been produced, although it is more of a light-weight buggy than a car in the conventional sense. It is guided by the kite, rather than its engine being powered by it. This poses the question of whether you can create engine power through a kite-like device. Could the wind blowing through a kite flying above a car create energy that is harnessed into the car’s engine?

Power from Tornados and Hurricanes

Tornados and Hurricanes are obviously very powerful. They could, in theory, create enough energy to power a town, at least for a little while. How exactly this would be done is not clear, and if a tornado or hurricane is sweeping through your town using it as an energy source is the least of your worries.

Waterfalls

Water falling onto a turbine, or something controlling the turbine, can create energy. If you’ve been to the Science Museum in London you may have seen a contraption where visitors can create a small waterfall that powers a television. While this may not produce a massive amount of power, imaging what Niagara Falls could do. It could create a fair bit of energy, possibly enough to power a town, but it isn’t going to solve the world’s problems. Why not, though, use it to power the surrounding area if possible.

Spinach

Spinach is best known for increasing Popeye’s strength, but it has also been used to power a house… kind of. It is actually a house powered by solar energy but the way the system was designed means the house had to be covered in a solid-state photosynthetic solar cell based skin, which is derived from spinach. It is really a matter of spinach assisting with solar power rather than creating the power itself.

Exercise

It is possible to create energy from people exercising if it can be harnessed in the right way. If you watch television while exercising on an exercise bike then the television could, in theory, be powered by the bike. Imagine if you could harness power in this way from the Olympics, could you power the whole of London for a few weeks? Well, maybe not, but it’s a nice idea.

Generating power is actually fairly easy. Generating power for everything we need is not. If power can be harnessed in the right way there is no end to the amount of power that could be created.

Andrew Marshall ©

Energy Law