OLPC Experiments With Cow-Powered Laptops 189
An anonymous reader writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) is toying with a novel source of power for its low-cost XO laptops: cows.
"We plan to drive a dynamo (taken from an old Fiat) through a system of belts and pulleys using cows/cattle," wrote OLPC's Arjun Sarwal, in an October 21 e-mail posted to one of the group's discussion lists.
Sarwal and others are now finalizing the design of the cow-powered generator."
Re:Cows don't walk much (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Something doesn't smell right (Score:2, Informative)
Wouldn't you harness them to a pole that is perpendicular to the shaft of the generator.
I'm sure they used to grind flour with the same sort of technology.
Bull(ock) power is common in India (Score:5, Informative)
It would be a trivial thing to gear up an oil press and drive a tiny generator to power a few laptops.
The design needs improvement. (Score:4, Informative)
Low-power laptop (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Vegan/Vegetarian Venn Diagram (Score:3, Informative)
Opposition against humans wearing animal fur, humans hurting animals, "anything that harms animals" as you say occurs within a similar subset of the human population, but is - as far as I know - not equal to veganism or vegetarianism.
Re:Wow...Second world nations? (Score:3, Informative)
Super Cow Power (Score:2, Informative)
$ apt-get moo
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Re:Something doesn't smell right (Score:5, Informative)