This seems like it's constrained to produce a trivial amount of energy. There is no way it's a practical source of power to reduce carbon emissions. Let's say we drop an 80kg person onto this floor and they deform it half a centimeter. That's 9.80 N/kg * 80 kg * .5 cm = 3.92 joules. A AA battery has 14,000 joules in it, which means you'd have to do that 3,571 times generate the equivalent energy.
The paper's abstract gives 0.87 volts * 13.3 nA =
1.15E-8 joules per second. That's not exactly going to make a dent in our power grid.
One paper I found [2] says you could get about 5J per step from walking on level ground, but that's still the same order of magnitude as my initial estimate and nowhere near a practical power generation technology.
The paper's abstract gives 0.87 volts * 13.3 nA = 1.15E-8 joules per second. That's not exactly going to make a dent in our power grid.
One paper I found [2] says you could get about 5J per step from walking on level ground, but that's still the same order of magnitude as my initial estimate and nowhere near a practical power generation technology.
[1]: https://www.baldengineer.com/9v-battery-energy-density.html
[2]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311916.2016.1...