Thursday, November 8, 2012

Charge your laptops, mobile phones, tablets, television, whatever gadgets you have.... just by visiting a website....

How cool would that be?

I was attending this awfully boring lecture at my college one fine evening, and as usual exploring whatever exotic stories and posts my friends had published on the virtual world of Facebook. My laptop battery was dying and I searched my bag and realized I forgot to bring my charger from home. How on earth could I bear 2 more hours of this lecture without Facebook?   

My thoughts wandered here and there and stumbled on this idea on how it would be if I was able to just log on to a website and download some energy whenever I need it..........

At first thought, this whole idea felt very exciting to me, so my mind traveled further and further, to how would it be if that energy was free of cost and I was able to charge my car, power my television, air conditioner, lights in my room, etc.

.....And how would it change the world if this energy was free and available to everyone without any limits or taxes or war.........

But is this really possible???? Thoughts are free of cost so why not give it a try....

And I still had lots more time before this lecture got over :)

Lets start with where I had the problem...my laptop.....

a) How is my laptop actually charged? 
Ans. Obviously with my laptop charger which passes on the electrical energy...

b) What do I then do with my laptop?
Ans. I type in some information and store it somewhere.

This information is actually data which are ultimately composed of binary digits (1 or 0)  or bits, which are actually representative of electrical signals of 1 or 0.  (Somewhere I heard during one of the boring electronics lectures at college)

Okay, lets go back to school now.....
I remembered the law of conservation of energy - 'Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is just transformed...' ( courtesy - My 8th grade Physics teacher)
So if I have all these data or bits stored somewhere, shouldn't there be a way out to convert or transform this back to electrical energy or power to charge my laptop back or for that matter any device????

And if there is a central location on the internet which I can use to get billions of data and a converter to transform this data to power?????

In addition, if this is accessible to all ,

- Put an end to most of the ridiculous wars being fought now for sources of energy
- Give power to many of the poor parts of the world who do not enjoy the basic standards of living.
- It would certainly change the world we live in

Cloud Computing is the in thing now.. This technology could be the next............

P.S.   Friends, I have not gone completely insane and there is no need to dial the nearest mental hospital... It is just that I have these kind of ridiculous thoughts every now and then and I needed a platform to vent it out..........

Also, my humble apologies if you actually clicked this blog and read through all this stuff thinking you would get some free energy ..... Lets pray someone somewhere in this world finds something similar......

But please do think about and promote ways of having new, cheap, renewable energy sources.... and which can be easily available to anyone....even during lectures at colleges......