Written by: B.C.
Have you ever had your phone battery mess up or you’ve lost your charger? Some day soon that might not be a problem. Four years ago Korean scientists attempted to charge a phone with only sound. They weren’t succesful, but with new technology and a colaborative effort between the phone company Nokia and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have succeeded.
The way they were able to do this is with a piezoelectric effect. For example, you could charge your by ambient sound, such as cheers from a football field or chatter from a coffee shop. What they did was use zinc oxide nanowires to convert vibrations caused by sound into electricity. The researchers used zinc oxide in the form of a sheet of tiny nanorods. These nanorods bend in response to sound waves which creates mechanical stress and zinc oxide will produce electrical current when exposed to mechanical stress.
The scientists started their test by spraying liquid zinc oxide onto a plastic sheet. The sheet was placed in a mixture of other chemicals and then heared up to 90ºC (194ºF). After being heated up the zinc oxide grew into an array of nanorods. The scientists harvested the volts they generated by sandwiching the nanorod sheet between two electrical contact sheets. These contract sheets would usually be made of gold but the scientists found a way to use ordinary aluminum foil instead.
The prototype energy-harvesting device the scientists came up with was about the size of a Nokia Lumia 925. The device was capable of generating up to five volts using everyday background noise from things like traffic, music, and voices. Five volts is enough to charge a moblie phone, and is much higher than the 50 millivolts that the korean scientist came up with four years ago. QMUL’s Dr. Joe Briscoe says “Being able to keep mobile devices working for longer, or do away with batteries completely by tapping into the stray energy that is all around us is an exciting concept. We hope that we have brought this technology closer to viability.” If this new technology goes mainstream the whole way we use batterypowered machines may be changed forever!
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Resources:
http://www.gizmag.com/phone-charging-sound/33326/
NICE O_O
Realy .. ?
Technology never ceases to amaze me
Technology never ceases to amaze me
I’m on Nokia Lumia icon lol (Nokia Lumia 926) too bad they did not add that in 🙁
5v ! great !
BUT HOW MANY AMPS ??? P = U *I So if 5 v And 0.001 amps the phone will need 50 days to charge … Do not hide information to us just to create illusion !!!
This is how speakers work so it’s not so surprising, the efficiency will be the interesting part.
This Can Cause Cardiac [Heart] Diseases !!
Because Of Its Rad-Wave !!
there had a good impact and high effect..
What radiation waves, genius? There’s no radiation in sound… And no radiation being emitted from the harvesting device because it uses mechanical energy to create electrical energy. Like a really high tech dynamo.
I want to say its BS but ill believe it anyway. if this works surely with 1 speaker and sever chargers looped together you could make infinite energy?
self-sustaining spying device/gray goo
First publicly released free energy?
So could turn on music on your phone and put it in an infinite loop of discharging and recharging itself?
Thank you for your work…if I can do something..i’LL DO, wHAT A PITY THAT YOU ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH!
5 volts means nothing, you need to look at watts. And there just aren’t that many watts of energy in sound, minus inefficiencies in energy conversion, your left with way too little energy to effectively do anything. Not to be a downer, but these free energy things drive me nuts when they use terms improperly. Always look for energy produced (watts or joules) and never voltage potential, because it’s meaningless.
the question is, how costly is it to mass produce it? If the costs can be overcome by placing huge panels on highway walls to isolate neighbourhoods from the sound of speeding cars… or inside towns, stadiums, airports, factories, or on the back of a plane, or even in a car. the question is as you say how much POWER P=UI is actually produced, while it is impressive to gain up to 5 volts out of such a small device. usually energy sources tend to decline in efficiency when under load. id be curious how it is with them.
“For example, you could charge your by ambient sound….Q I could charge my what, exactly? Ho