Friday, March 19, 2010

POWER SOURCE

At present; mostly (lead-acid) batteries are used, but potential power sources could be:
pneumatic (compressed gases)
hydraulics (compressed liquids)
flywheel energy storage
organic garbages (through anaerobic digestion)
faeces (human, animal); may be interesting in a military context as feces of small combat groups may be reused for the energy requirements of the robot assistant (see DEKA's project Slingshot stirling engine on how the system would operate)
still untested energy sources (e.g. Joe Cell, ...)
radioactive source (such as with the proposed Ford car of the '50); to those proposed in movies such as
Red Planet

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