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Is it possible to use the vibrational energy generated from machinery in factories or robotic factories to power up the lights and save on the lighting system costs? Lighting in modern factories costs hundreds of thousands per year in each location. These costs obviously are a draw on the factory in more ways than one. For United States Factories to compete in the real world they will have to reduce costs. Currently the costs for power in the US since they are lower than the rest of the world do help as an advantage in the world market. Yet they hardly offset the low labor costs of foreign manufacturing competitors.

I propose we use the vibrational energy of the machinery along with a little reflective optic technology to light up all modern day factories. Currently there are some nifty micro-flashlights being used which you can buy which use a similar technique and are available thanks to the Everlight Flashlight technology research lab. These smaller flashlights work by shaking them for about thirty seconds and shine for about 6 minutes and they shine quite bright since they use a very bright LED light. Here is a link to this home use flashlight:

http://demo.physics.uiuc.edu/LectDemo/scripts/demo_descript.idc?DemoID=1138

Now then, using this technology and thinking out loud a little as I type; What if we made the floor, ceiling out of sandwich sheets with perpendicular tubes inside, But thinner and lighter than the flashlight tubes and not only one, but hundreds and hundreds in the size of a pallet lets say? What if we hung or placed all these square sandwich sheets with the tubes inside going facing the vibrations, but a thin very strong film, at high tension, being the collector of the vibrations? Inside the tubes little magnets, which would bounce back and forth along copper strings running the length of the tubes joined to a capacitor.

Then we would section the room off and one isle lights up the next and that isles machinery’s vibrations would lights up the next. By partitioning in rows your factory, the vibration would be greater as it would not disperse into the room, but rather trapped between rows partitioned by these sandwich sheet pallet size squares three high end to end for the length of the factory on each row.

We do not necessarily have to use the Flashlite design, as a matter of fact it is too big for our needs, you instead need hundreds of mini units tied together, but we license their technology. Think of this scenario as instead of communicating with each other each like cells in the body using light, each tube with magnets would be doing their little part of lighting up a small space ahead; each light working on .2-.35 watts. Thus the many are all giving a little and thus, like ants in a colony the resultant is one hell of a lot.

Oh incidentally in this design the vibrational taunt high tension film will be reflective so as to not waste the light we create, but instead reflect back and pick up any shadows left from the single directional lighting. Let there be light said “Winslow” and there was light, as a matter of fact there was so much light that no lighting power was ever needed again in the modern US Factory and his ancestor Friedrich “Winslow’ Taylor smiled from beyond.

Further in my design; The last row would use fiber optics to deliver light to the first row of LED lights or a series of mirrors would bring it all around full circle. The whole thing now runs off the vibrational energy of the machines between the rows. Do you like my concept?

One side of the sandwich sheet collects the vibrations sends those little magnetic do hickeys senseless in the tubes firing LED lights on the other side, all about .2 watts, but realize the numbers of them. Your factory is lit up like a Christmas Tree; in studying the basis for this concept please read the following links below.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Use-of-Vibrational-Energy-to-Light-Up-Conveyor-Belts&id=78159

I cannot see why it would not work? Also you could run an RFID reader device for tracking and there are LED Chips now too, so you could really do a lot here, save huge costs.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Energy-Saving-LED-RFID-Tag-Readers-Running-on-Vibrational-Energy&id=78574

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?Aircraft-Back-Up-Avionics-Power-in-Case-of-Lightning-Strike&id=78568

You know this thing could be so simple we could build it for about $400.00 per square, three high is $1200 for every five feet. Take the length of each row in feet and divide by five and multiply times $1200, then multiply the rows. That would be the cost. Subtract that from your yearly cost to light the place and the difference is the Companies yearly savings on lighting and that is on a scale of 12-month to ROI plus profit? Thin vibration collector sheet, composite frame, 144 tubes per each 144 magnets inside and 144 LED lights .25 watt bulbs, we are not talking very much cost really.

Again, just thinking out loud, but how could it not work? Although this is one of thousands of unfinished thoughts of concepts and designs, we all know that each one of us has indeed thought of a better way of doing something. Sometimes it is a method, sometimes a design other times a concept, yet all these thoughts can lead to even greater discoveries to help the forward progression of mankind. Please do not turn off you brain, open your mind today. Think on this.

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