During the beginning of invention of electric appliances, they experimented with electric tablecloths. You could basically plug in an outlet anywhere on the table and the lightbulb would light up. Only downside was that you couldn’t spill any liquids on it.
During the beginning of invention…
During the beginning of invention of electric appliances, they experimented with electric tablecloths. You could basically plug in an outlet anywhere on the table and the lightbulb would light up. Only downside was that you couldn’t spill any liquids on it.
US President Benjamin Harrison…
US President Benjamin Harrison had electric lights installed in the White House, but would sleep with the lights on because he was too afraid to touch the switches. To be fair, old school light switches aren’t like the ones we have on the walls today. They were ungrounded toggles, either spinners or levers, which physically […]
Nikola Tesla planned to make…
Nikola Tesla planned to make school children smarter and healthier by saturating them unconsciously with electricity, wiring the walls of a schoolroom with high-voltage lines. The plan was provisionally approved by then superintendent of New York City schools, William H. Maxwell.
Scientists Can Harness Electricity from Your Skin’s Melanin, and Melanated People Are… Uneasy
Scientists are figuring out how to harness electricity from your skin’s melanin, and, as a melanated person, IDK if this is good news or bad news.
A group of Italian scientists recently made a breakthrough that allows them to conduct electricity from eumelanin, the pigment that colors human skin, hair, and eyes. In its natural form, eumelanin conducts electricity, but not very efficiently – these scientists figured out a way to give it a boost.
The process is still very much in its early stages, and there are still challenges to figure out before it becomes applicable IRL. But eventually, this technology could help power bioelectronics, like medical implants, and lower the risk of rejection.
“This is the first [stepping] stone of a long process that now can start,” said Alessandro Pezzella, the University of Naples Federico II chemist who authored the study.
Meanwhile, I and my fellow brown-skinned people are, um, nervous.
So what you’re saying is scientists want to kill black people for elecricity.
Kl! We ain’t stupid you know. https://t.co/xja88Z0dMw
— Tolly (@tolly_t) March 29, 2019
Is it just us or does this sound like something from a dystopian sci-fi movie?
Turn us into AA batteries like The Matrix.
—
Uptown Oracle
(@GregKCampbell) March 29, 2019
Because where are they gonna get all this melanin from, hmm?!
Harness it??…. they gone be flooding the hoods like pic.twitter.com/jbYVgvEt5Z
— Lessy (@LessyFromCali) March 29, 2019
Some folks are already ready for a fight.
“Not if I electric shock they ass first,” one woman wrote.
“I got some electric for they ass,” another agreed.
On the other hand, some people are also thinking ahead about how to use this tech to their advantage.
“But in all seriousness, can I pay my light bill with this?”
Goooood question.
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Portland, Oregon is About to Generate Electricity from the City’s Water Pipes
The need for modern societies to move beyond fossil fuels and develop renewable energy alternatives is undeniable. Towards those efforts, city planners of the world should keep an eye on what’s happening in Portland, Oregon.
The city has partnered with a company called Lucid Energy to generate clean electricity for the city by utilizing the water already flowing beneath the city.
Photo Credit: Facebook, Lucid Energy
A section of Portland’s water system was replaced by pipes designed by Lucid Energy that contain four 42″ turbines. As the water flows through the pipes under the city’s streets, the turbines spin and provide energy that is put into the city’s electrical grid.
Lucid Energy says this will be “first project in the U.S. to secure a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for renewable energy produced by in-pipe hydropower in a municipal water pipeline.” One big advantage that this type of energy-generating system has is that it isn’t affected by the weather, like solar and wind power are.
The water must be moved by gravity because the energy required to pump water through pipes would make the energy generated by this technology pointless. In other words, cities with an abundance of hills will be the winners with this technology.
Photo Credt: Good Free Photos
When the project is complete it is supposed to generate power to up to 150 homes. While that might not sound like a lot, it is a great start for what is basically a brand new technology.
Take a look at this video to learn more about the project.
Hopefully, city planners and civic leaders around the country are paying attention to what’s going on in Portland.
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Electricity was first installed…
Electricity was first installed in the White House in 1891. It was such a new concept that President Benjamin Harrison and his wife both refused to touch light switches due to their fear of electrocution so the White House staff had to follow them around and turn the lights off and on for them. 00
A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally…
A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through. A person near this “wall” was unable to turn, and so had to walk backwards to retreat from it. 00
Wireless phone chargers use resonant inductive …
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Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, had electricity…
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States, had electricity installed in the White House for the first time. He and his wife were so scared of being electrocuted that they wouldn’t touch the light switches, often going to sleep with the lights on.