Scientists are discovering the same source of energy that has been used to run this board for years.
Did Cecil patent it?
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And I thought all that stuff about board hamsters were just jokes- ignorance fought!
Can you feed the hamsters with posts, like the Dope’s? If so, it could also lead to a new source of revenue for us.
Hampsters, people. The SDMB is run by hampsters.
Rookies…
Yeah, this technology is the first thing I learned when they made me a mod last year. Turned my hair white, it did.
Hamster: Doc! I feel so tired and run-down these days!
Doc: Just a minute while I disconnect these power cables…
What, they don’t have you in the exercise wheel, do they?
“BEHOLD! My newest creation, a tiny jacket for hamsters, can harvest their irregular biomotions to generate electricity as they run on their wheel!”
“Er… wouldn’t it be a lot more efficient to just hook a generator directly to the wheel?”
“YES! But if you did that, then your hamsters would be NUDE! I envision a future where people can look at hamsters without SHAME! A world of clean, limitless energy, generated by hamsters in DECENT CLOTHING! A world in which our very eyes are no longer SOILED by the sight of IMMODEST, SWEATY NAKED HAMSTERS!”
“Please come down off the table, Doctor.”
I’m afraid the Japanese could be 7 years ahead of us.
That ain’t no dream car. I know what hamsters smell like.
Power machines with an organism bio energy?
One step closer to the Matrix!, wheeeee!! :dubious:
Maybe it’s actually run by hampers.
That would explain a lot.
I know some people say this board’s slow, but a message board powered by exercise from people who volunteer to moderate a message board probably wouldn’t get off the ground at all.
Shut up and get in The Machine.
Welcome to The Machine!
You’re right. They wouldn’t have staff in exercise wheels. That just wouldn’t be efficient.
[sub]It would probably be treadmills…[/sub]
In case you missed it, here is a tour of the server room at SDMB central.
Maybe our search function would go faster if they upgraded to badgers. (animation/sound warning)
Sunspace, word has it that engineers are signing a contract with the people who brought us the Treadmobile.
On a serious note, they mention using piezoelectric wires to harvest energy from random movements, but couldn’t you just use some kind of rotating magnet set up to get energy from a wheel?