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15-year-old Canadian girl invents flashlight powered only by body heat...
Daily Mail ^ | 6-29-13 | By Ashley Collman

Posted on 06/30/2013 2:01:44 AM PDT by rawhide

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This is kinda neat. Not sure how much candlepower is put out by this invention, but still kinda neat. Video at link.

1 posted on 06/30/2013 2:01:44 AM PDT by rawhide
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Couldn’t you put peiltier cells on the back of solar cells and recover some wasted heat energy, or fabricate them in layers with the solar cells on top and the peiltier cells below them, with the back of the cell in the shaodw it could boost the effeciency....


2 posted on 06/30/2013 2:52:15 AM PDT by GraceG
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Little Miss Smartypants! Well done.

Wonder what you could power if you made a jacket out of those tiles.

3 posted on 06/30/2013 2:59:33 AM PDT by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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Wonder what you could power if you made a jacket out of those tiles.

Laser eyeballs.


4 posted on 06/30/2013 3:02:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (If illegal aliens voted (R), then the Dems would create the tightest border security in the world.)
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Bobby "Blue" Bland Turn On Your Love Light
5 posted on 06/30/2013 3:16:01 AM PDT by csvset
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> She realized that the warmth generated by the human body was an overlooked energy source.

Hopefully the government doesn’t or we might end up in a cocoon hooked up to wires ala Matrix style


6 posted on 06/30/2013 4:11:58 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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I’m thinking why not solar powered LED flashlight to scare rapists away?


7 posted on 06/30/2013 4:12:17 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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Has this got anything to do with how a mood dring works?

Whatever — not only is she smart and creative, she is very well spoken. Best of luck to her.


8 posted on 06/30/2013 4:18:20 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Some people are hotter than others.


9 posted on 06/30/2013 4:23:03 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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Mr Bland died a week ago today.
10 posted on 06/30/2013 4:26:25 AM PDT by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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It darn well better be, considering all that carbon dioxide we’re excreting!


11 posted on 06/30/2013 5:05:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Wonder why she pronounced volts like vaults.


12 posted on 06/30/2013 5:38:24 AM PDT by Rider on the Rain
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she’s Canadian. probably some French background.


13 posted on 06/30/2013 5:58:17 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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Perpetual motion machine:

Strap a piece of buttered toast to a cat's back and drop from a 5-story building.

14 posted on 06/30/2013 6:03:21 AM PDT by twister881
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Good job.


15 posted on 06/30/2013 6:26:50 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Ho, ho, hey, hey, I'm BUYcotting Chick-Fil-A)
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My thoughts were going in a similar direction. Every little bit helps.


16 posted on 06/30/2013 6:45:42 AM PDT by shatcher (Judges 17:6b Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.)
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bought one about a year ago.....been there done that....not large but quite handy....This one is similar to the one I have


17 posted on 06/30/2013 7:13:28 AM PDT by xp38
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Could be kind of expensive to make, but they can be sold to the govt.


18 posted on 06/30/2013 7:26:43 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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Good for her she’s a thinker.

Hope her friends don’t tease her and call her old hot hands Ann.


19 posted on 06/30/2013 7:32:11 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Well that will never work for old people, their never warm, just ask them.


20 posted on 06/30/2013 8:56:52 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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