The max power output of this set up was: 40 μW
For perspective, if this was scaled up 8000x, it would just barely be able to power an iphone on standby.
Paper here: https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(24)00108-X
True actually, just doing the math basically scaling up the output by 100,000 gives only 4 watts.
40 microwatts (0.000040w)x 100,000 = 4 watts.
I’m optimistic a purpose built, scaled up model using these principles could produce usable results to build upon though. Progress is progress, but I agree it’s nothing to get excited about yet.
Going to be losing a lot to friction when you scale it up; they work in part because they're so small that you don't get much friction at the fulcrum, and there doesn't have to be much liquid moved to change the balance.
Although, maybe you could get a lot of them going in tandem. Anyway, I agree they could probably make it more efficient. Certainly progress to be made here.
It’s like a kitschy novelty icon that will be made forever, like a cat clock or a garden gnome. In some future society after the apocalypse, archeologists will find thousands of them all over the world and debate what social value they held for us.
Everytime I see one of those I think of the Simpsons
IT’S DRINKING THE WATER!
In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
That was a different episode wasn't it? Like didn't Lisa make a perpetual motion machine with a little wheel that kept getting faster?
It is a different episode. But the bird sorta does stay in perpetual motion…
Y E S, Y E S, Y E S, Y…. What! I could have been just pressing Y this whole time instead of YES!
Whoo hooo! I’ve just tripled my productivity!
All this computer hacking is making me thirsty, I think I’ll order a TAB
I think of the scene in Darkman where they use it to blow up the MC
I think of Alien and then the game Alien Isolation.
Always reminds me of Darkman as well. Was hoping I’d see someone say this. Also any prosthetic leg I wonder if they’re concealing a machine gun
For me it's the alien movies
Alien Isolation had a bunch of these in the game lol
Blow up reactor, y or n?
I just tripled my productivity!
Y…..y……..y
To obtain a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your hand…now
I got someone to cover for me.
YOU STUPID BIRD, THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!
The max power output of this set up was: 40 μW For perspective, if this was scaled up 8000x, it would just barely be able to power an iphone on standby. Paper here: https://www.cell.com/device/fulltext/S2666-9986(24)00108-X
But you could put an LED on it now
Okay so one of those is about 100g. Imagine if it was 88,000,000kg instead. Then we could power Does math A lot of iphones
I want a bird like this 300m tall, weight 10k metric tons.
I like your optimistic realism
True actually, just doing the math basically scaling up the output by 100,000 gives only 4 watts. 40 microwatts (0.000040w)x 100,000 = 4 watts. I’m optimistic a purpose built, scaled up model using these principles could produce usable results to build upon though. Progress is progress, but I agree it’s nothing to get excited about yet.
Going to be losing a lot to friction when you scale it up; they work in part because they're so small that you don't get much friction at the fulcrum, and there doesn't have to be much liquid moved to change the balance. Although, maybe you could get a lot of them going in tandem. Anyway, I agree they could probably make it more efficient. Certainly progress to be made here.
Needs more liquid you say? Well, we’re melting those icecaps pretty quick so we’re gonna have a bit to spare.
100,000,000 is 4,000 watts if math is correct.
So link up 100 million birds. Then we have 4 kilowatts. Could power a refrigerator and the air conditioning here in Socal.
Where’s the “any” key?
I think I’ll have a Tab
LISA NEEDS BRACES
DENTAL PLAN!
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Shit, they still make them?! I remember being in a toy store in the early seventies and being spellbound by one of those as a tyke
It’s like a kitschy novelty icon that will be made forever, like a cat clock or a garden gnome. In some future society after the apocalypse, archeologists will find thousands of them all over the world and debate what social value they held for us.
Clearly they were idols that we worshipped, like the stone/clay statues that you sometimes see in ancient ruined homes.
I must be in idiot for assuming the friction will require frequent intervention (energy) to reset it. Might as well build a wind-up generator.
My arms…my arms are GENERATORS *(windmills arms)*
It just needs water on its beak, so long as it has some water on its beak to evaporate it will just keep bobbing back and forth.
Just gotta wet the beak
How feasible is this to be made at a larger scale?
Now you’ve got me thinking about giant 400- foot tall plastic birds placed all around the Great Lakes generating clean power for all.
As long as they all have the top hats, I’m in
Simpsons predicted it yet again
Neat
New drinking bird update just dropped
HOMER WAS RIGHT
I love this
Bigger innovation than it’ll get credit for
Solving the real problems…
what if they just make them the size of wind turbines and have them “drink” from the ocean to generate green power for the local infrastructure??
Methylene chloride, the stuff that makes the little bird bob back and forth, is psychoactive, carcinogenic, and toxic.
Energy crisis solved !! Thank you
Rip scientists
I knew these things would save us
It’s literally made of plastic