Directory:Animal-Powered
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Technologies and concepts for generating usable energy from animal activity.
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Overview
Animal power has been in use ever since mankind first inhabited the earth.
Animals Are Back
- Horses help local farmers cut costs (http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_565740.html) - "It's something about getting behind that team of horses that slows life down to the way it ought to be," said Jeff Johns, 48, who owns Lonesome Valley Farms in Unity and Mt. Pleasant townships. (Tribune-Review; May 4, 2008)
Humor
- Ant Power Transmission (http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Ant_20Power_20Transmission#1202821686) - The problem of long distance power transmission over large land masses can be easily solved by replacing the current wire-based continuous transmission model with an ant-based electrostatic packet system. (HalfBakery; Feb. 11, 2008)
- Goatisms (http://internettrash.com/users/goatisms/list.htm)
- Pigeon Power (http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Pigeon_20Power#1019044384) - If we had warehouses full of tiers and tiers of rows and rows of caged pigeons, each pecking away at a food dispenser button, each generating a small amount of electricity (with each peck taking it closer to death) then we'd have plenty of electricity. (HalfBakery; April 13, 2002)
- Squirrel Power (http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Squirrel_20Power#1098984234) - This "Squirrel feeder" would have a hamster-wheel like apparatus connected to it. (HalfBakery; Oct. 24, 2004)
- Wheels of fortune (http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg19325862.300) - Hamster Power calculations. (New Scientist; Jan.17, 2007)
Patents
- Fleethorse (http://fleethorse.com/) - Win the patent and $100K to develop the Naturmobil.
Projects
- Wheel and Water (http://www.wheelandwater.co.za/) - Rugged in construction and ingenious in design, the “HAPPY” is a high-tech model of an ancient, yet proven concept, the donkey cart.
- Hamster-Powered Night Light With Custom Low-RPM Alternator (http://www.otherpower.com/hamster.html) - Do-it-yourself hamster-powered power generator.
Research & Development
- Naturmobil: Cart runs on ‘horse power’ (http://www.xpress4me.com/news/uae/dubai/20007183.html) - Abdolhadi Mirhejazi plans on building the Naturmobil designed to put the cart before the horse. (XPRESS; May 6, 2008)
Videos
- Electric Eel Christmas Tree Lights (http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=72584) - The electric eel discharges up to 800 watts of power and every time the creature moves it lights up the Christmas tree. (Reuters; Dec 13, 2007)
- Iditarod Dog Sled Race videos (http://www.iditarod.com/)
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(5.24 Minutes) Elephant Power
In Myanmar, elephants are used to log the teak forests that were once their home. While investigating the consequences of harnessing elephant power for labor, Wild Chronicles discovers that these elephants — and some thoughtful forest management — are helping to save Myanmar's remaining wild lands. (YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1wGTCDntJ0) Oct. 4, 2007)
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(1.12 Minutes) Mule Driven PTO Forecart in Vermont
Bob and his 4 mules provide the pulling power for this waste-oil fired, 28 hp, PTO & hydraulic forecart demonstrated at the 2007 Northeast Animal-Powered Field Days in Tunbridge Vermont. (YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q9Gos7L59Y) Oct. 2, 2007)
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(.42 Minutes) Twenty Mule Team
Twenty Mule Team pulling 100 year old wagons in Boron CA. (YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzt41JR7MFg) Oct. 6, 2007)
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(3.19 Minutes) National Ploughing Championships
Horsing around with work horses. (YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgHNI11MnWU) Oct. 4, 2007)
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(2.12 Minutes) sleigh ride in lapland
Lapland Sleigh pulled by reindeer. (YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePi7XdmVjXE) Dec. 3, 2006)
Resources
- Draft Animal Power (http://www.draftanimalpower.com/) - Sustainable Farming, Forestry and Living.
- Draught Animal Power (http://www.fao.org/ag/AGS/agse/chapterPS1/ChapterPS1-e.htm) - Animals save household (women and children) time and effort by carrying water and fuel wood. Animal power can also be used for water-lifting, milling, logging and land excavation and road construction. Many different types of animal are employed, particularly cattle (oxen, bulls and cows), buffaloes, horses, mules, donkeys and camels.
- Animal-powered Logging sites (http://www.sfws.auburn.edu/dubois/animal%20logging%20websites.html)
- Animal-powered Transport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal-powered_transport)
- Animal-powered Vehicles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animal-powered_vehicles)
- Working With Animals (http://www.echotech.org/technical/az/aztext/azch9wor.htm#Table)
- Draft Animal Power (http://www.worldwideflood.com/ark/technology/animal_power.htm) - Tim Lovett's website on sustainable animal power.
- Rural Heritage Magazine (http://www.ruralheritage.com/horse_paddock/index.htm) - Rural Heritage is a bimonthly journal mailed by subscription since 1976 to small-scale farmers and loggers who enthusiastically use draft horse, mule, and ox power.
- Working Dogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Working_dogs)
Training
- Tillers International (http://www.tillersinternational.org/) - If you want to farm with draft animals or learn affordable farm skills to share with the world's poor, Tillers can create opportunities for you to learn historical draft animal practices and then integrate new, low-cost technologies.
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