A kamikaze squirrel fell from the sky and detonated a Bayonne woman’s car yesterday, police said today.
…Firefighters told them it was the work of a buck-toothed saboteur that had been gnawing on overhead power lines connected to a transformer directly above the 2006 Toyota Camry.
“The squirrel chewed through the wire, was set on fire, fell down directly to where the car was” Tony Millar said. “The squirrel, on fire, slid into the engine compartment and blew up the car.
I wish we had more overhead power cables in this country. Maybe then we’d have less squirrels because they’d be setting themselves on fire more often!
Researchers from Michigan Technological University, Arizona State University and NanoSonic, Inc. are working on harvesting energy created by wearing a backpack with straps made with a piezoelectric material.
The interesting bit about the design specification for this device is that it had to be “transparent to the user by not interfering with the user’s flexibility or endurance, as well as providing enough energy to reduce the need for carrying heavy batteries to power portable electronics.”
All that rubbing of your backpack straps on your shoulders may be put to good use, now that researchers have designed a novel type of energy harvesting backpack. The pack has straps made of a piezoelectric material that can convert the mechanical strain on the straps into electrical energy that may power or recharge portable electronics.
There’s a reason why I’m spending three years at college to become a qualified electrician. I just emailed my tutor with a link to this video asking if we were going to be given a similar training course to these muppets.
How to fry a PowerBook quick and easily.
Attach a power cable to your cable modem.
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