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Sound will be used to make electricity

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Vivek Golikeri, Aug 15, 2015.

  1. Vivek Golikeri

    Vivek Golikeri Active Member

    A day will come when waste noise can actually be trapped and channeled to generate electricity. This may be done by two ways. One, if someone discovers some way to turn the sound waves themselves into electricity. The other would be by indirect means. The sound might be used to trigger off some ultra-sensitive mechanism, similar to a tuning fork, and it would be that mechanism's vibrations which create piezo-electricity.

    The world of the future will be a strangely quieter place because once a waste commodity becomes economically valuable due to new inventions, everyone will scramble to harvest what was previously just ignored.
     
  2. Stuntman

    Stuntman Full Member

    Microphones already convert sound into electricity.
     
  3. Vivek Golikeri

    Vivek Golikeri Active Member

    Bingo! So right from that, we have something to build from. Conversion of sound into electricity has already been achieved in the laboratory, and I'm sure microphones might do the same. Yet the key difference lies between proving that it can be done, and knowing how to do it on a commercially feasible scale. After all, this very same internet that you and I are communicating on already existed prior to 1995, when it was made available to the public. It was used by the military and wealthy corporations. So were computers before the invention of the microchip in the late 1970's made it possible to provide them to common people.
     
  4. Stuntman

    Stuntman Full Member

    Very little energy is transferred via sound waves. In order for you to hear something a microphone picks up, the signal has to be amplified.
     
  5. Vivek Golikeri

    Vivek Golikeri Active Member

    I see a day when the outdoors becomes strangely silent compared to today. Most vehicles and appliances will have been muffled in order to divert their noise into electricity-generating equipment. Airplanes and automobiles will be quiet, so will machines. Of course, we cannot depend on sound alone as fuel. Future equipment and vehicles will increasingly use a multiplicity of energy sources rather than just one.
     

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