This is fairly obvious:
Solar panels are nice, and we need more of them (until something better comes along).
Why not put solar panels on your phone?
Yet another way, in addition to the
thing I mentioned earlier, to keep your phone charged.
All of these solutions are going to be worthless when we discover a way to harness energy out of tiny motions and the minuscule warmth of human hands.
Imagine… your phone would be charged just by being held and carried around in your pocket… as though it were some sort of baby animal!
They say that perpetual motion is not possible, but let's look at some systems that APPEAR to be in perpetual motion:
The bicycle is fantastic because it takes a small
human input and amplifies it. Steve Jobs agrees:
"I read a study that measured the efficiency of
locomotion for various species on the planet. The
condor used the least energy to move a kilometer.
And, humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing, about a third of the way down the list. It
was not too proud a showing for the crown of creation. So, that didn’t look so good. But, then
somebody at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And, a man on a bicycle, a human on a bicycle, blew the condor away, completely off the top of the charts."
Hopefully, we will work like calculus. Once upon a time, Isaac Newton tried to find the area under a curve. He drew 4 large squares… a good approximation, but he had the sense that things could get better. He drew 8 large squares… a definite improvement, but it was still not up to snuff. He drew 16 small squares… 60 small squares… 200 small squares… 400 small squares… 10,000 small squares! Each time the results got better and better, until he was bordering on infinity. The day that we are able to extract power from just the day to day movements of living will be the day that we sit on the border of the infinite.
