Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Mini windmills power wireless networks

Power can be scavenged from a gentle breeze.

Nature.com has a really interesting article today about tiny little windmills that can be used to power wireless sensor devices, eliminating the need to worry about battery life or external power sources. An engineer at the University of Texas, Arlington has created a mini-windmill about 10 centimeters across that can generate 7.5 milliwatts from a gentle breeze of 16 kilometers per hour.

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