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Micropower Harvesters

Posted December 17, 2009 8:33 AM

The repeated maintenance cost of battery replacement for wireless sensors can be a drawback. Technologies under development can harvest milliwatts of power from sources including solar, vibration, thermal, and radio frequency (RF) waves. To what extent will energy harvesting technologies eventually replace batteries?

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Re: Micropower Harvesters

12/20/2009 5:16 AM

Why not have community based battery systems where all the power harvesting equipment is hooked into. This way the cost of batterys would be lowered .

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