Yeah that’s my point, the energy you can actually harvest is ridiculously small. Even if it was slowing charging a capacitor with this harvested power and saving it for later use, how often can i use the switch before depleting the energy faster than it charges? “oh sorry, you’ll have to wait 5min to turn on your lights again, It’s not quite charged enough”
DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Yeah that’s my point, the energy you can actually harvest is ridiculously small. Even if it was slowing charging a capacitor with this harvested power and saving it for later use, how often can i use the switch before depleting the energy faster than it charges? “oh sorry, you’ll have to wait 5min to turn on your lights again, It’s not quite charged enough”
luthis@lemmy.nz 6 months ago
My guess is you would get a couple seconds of light before needing several hours to charge it up again.