Green energy is finding constant new ways and new avenues to harness power from, which can be then tapped into and used. Various new and seemingly odd sources and unusual designs are emerging with people already successfully using rotating doors and dance floors in a club to generate power and drive the energy needs of some buildings. But the constant quest to produce clean energy from eco-friendly sources is once in a while turning up a weird design or two. That probably is how we would categorize the latest battery design provided by Energy Mint. ‘Shake it to power it up’, is the philosophy of these latest little power houses, though they seem a bit too perfect to be true.

The design is simple enough though with a small magnet and a coil placed on a rubber-shock absorber and the set up connected to an in-built tiny Ni-mh battery. While in theory this should produce power when you shake it up and in reality it does, the power is just not consistent enough or large enough to sustain most needs. Much like the current wind-up LED lights or even the ‘shake them’ versions, this might not really have any level of efficiency to become popular.

Batteries are a major source of toxic waste and right now the best way to reduce their number seems to be to either replace them as power sources by other means or use solar-powered rechargeable ones. The Shake battery though seems to have a long way to go before it can give a convincing account of itself.

Via: mintpass