Building a Better Energy Future

Friday, 7 January 2011

Personal Energy Generation

CES, the Consumer Electronics Show is on now in Las Vegas. One of the many interesting new technologies on display is PEG, the Personal Energy Generator from nPower. This device contains a battery and works by stashing it in your bag as you walk around. It converts kinetic energy into an electrical charge that the battery stores.


About 15 minutes of walking creates 1 minute of charge for a high powered device such as an iPhone. If this can be shrunk you can see these popping up as extremely useful devices in our increasingly gadgetized world.