{"id":354,"date":"2004-10-19T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/10\/19\/miniature-turbines-to-power-your-pda\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T19:33:32","slug":"miniature-turbines-to-power-your-pda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/2004\/10\/19\/miniature-turbines-to-power-your-pda\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniature turbines to power your PDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a283'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roland Piquapille discusses an article on miniature turbines at his<br \/>\ntechnology blog: &#8220;Today, our handheld devices are powered by batteries,<br \/>\nwhich are heavy<br \/>\nand inconvenient. Fuel cells are just arriving on the market as a<br \/>\nreplacement. But there is a new contender: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/articles\/04\/11\/freedman1104.asp\"><strong>micro gas turbine engines<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nunder development at the MIT. Engineers there shrunk jet engines to the<br \/>\nsize of a coat button. And their blades which span an area smaller than<br \/>\na dime can spin a million times per minute and produce enough<br \/>\nelectricity to power your PDA or your cell phone.&#8221; (Source: Slashdot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roland Piquapille discusses an article on miniature turbines at his technology blog: &#8220;Today, our handheld devices are powered by batteries, which are heavy and inconvenient. Fuel cells are just arriving on the market as a replacement. But there is a new contender: micro gas turbine engines under development at the MIT. Engineers there shrunk jet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/rihlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}