Oh, If We Could Get All The Energy
You know how Singaporeans are becoming more health freakish? Yeah, like how they take up health club memberships, and have personal trainers and all? You can tell by the flourishing health clubs market.
Anyway, so this article in BBC reminded me of this grand lofty idea I had back in school. I realised that this isn't new at all, since I once mentioned this to a friend and she had the very same idea! So it isn't patentable. But still, it doesn't make it a bad idea...
So back to the health freaks: Maybe we can make people cycle on special bikes or treadmills so that they transmit all the energy to some power station. I mean, why waste all that energy? It seems weird that you exercise to dispense energy but you use electricity to run these very machines to help you exercise.
On another note, this is interesting too. Although the comment also made me think a bit. Yeah, cheap computers are good, but shouldn't we feed these people first? Anyway, I think something good can still come out of all this, since we can help people break out of the poverty cycle. Only, if they can get cheap and well-connected access to the internet, they'll have the wealth of information at their disposal. That'll be so good too. But we'll have to bank on some altruistic internet company to set that up.
To end off, here's a picture of a gift the Temasek Junior College students so kindly passed to me after I successfully (I hope, at least) entertained them for an hour or so, and told them a bit about research, science and the society.
You know, the little things like that make your day.
Anyway, so this article in BBC reminded me of this grand lofty idea I had back in school. I realised that this isn't new at all, since I once mentioned this to a friend and she had the very same idea! So it isn't patentable. But still, it doesn't make it a bad idea...
So back to the health freaks: Maybe we can make people cycle on special bikes or treadmills so that they transmit all the energy to some power station. I mean, why waste all that energy? It seems weird that you exercise to dispense energy but you use electricity to run these very machines to help you exercise.
On another note, this is interesting too. Although the comment also made me think a bit. Yeah, cheap computers are good, but shouldn't we feed these people first? Anyway, I think something good can still come out of all this, since we can help people break out of the poverty cycle. Only, if they can get cheap and well-connected access to the internet, they'll have the wealth of information at their disposal. That'll be so good too. But we'll have to bank on some altruistic internet company to set that up.
To end off, here's a picture of a gift the Temasek Junior College students so kindly passed to me after I successfully (I hope, at least) entertained them for an hour or so, and told them a bit about research, science and the society.
You know, the little things like that make your day.
posted by Female Fizzicist at 1:06 AM
2 Comments:
hey addy, thanks for letting me know about your blog! you do have some really crazy ideas here, hope your exercyclo-generator thingy becomes reality soon :)
hey just a jc guy here. Saw yr writing on astar's voices from our scholars website and got interested to know you. Congrats for completing your university and attachment at IMRE. Well, i'm now attached with IMRE under a student attachment program by our school and imre. Duno if i have to chance to see you in person :) . Well, nvm, good luck for yr phD studies !!! AND dun forget to update your blog!!! I'll be reading :D. -Someone who aspires to study physics with a-star scholarship- :D
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