Feb 19
Living off the grid: Powering your refridgerator with your beer belly
Not my headline. Scott’s title for an off-the-cuff comment I made regarding wanting to hook myself up to batteries and just eat all day and sell my excess energy.
Inspired by foodsel (via lifehacker)
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February 19th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
To put the headline in context: no, nevermind– forget it.
But let’s think about it. The foods you eat are metabolized and converted to energy. Excess energy is converted to fat and stored. Now, we need a device that will instead store the energy in rechargeable batteries, rather than fat. Trim the waist-line, and power your house. Use those batteries to power, say, a small microwave, and create an endless cycle of deliciousness.
Speaking of which, here’s the first image result on a search for “cycle of deliciousness”:
http://rs.resalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/4box-adaptive-cycle.gif
I’m not sure what it means, but I think it applies here.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Priceless comment-”to hook myself up to batteries and just eat all day and sell my excess energy.” Im still laughing….
February 20th, 2008 at 7:15 am
I think you boys are onto something here…even if it doesn’t really work, with enough hype a novel idea like this one is sure to turn into a money maker. I’m seeing the batteries with pics of buff people on them….
April 27th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Can I buy some of this energy off you? What’s the going rate?
April 27th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
That depends Fitz, are you buying in bulk or is it just for personal use?