Cafeteria Lighting at High Schools

Do you remember the High School Cafeteria? The noise, the food fights, the detention and just being in the wrong place at the wrong time for some certain edible organic flying matter that day? Of all the noisiest places I have ever been that is certainly ranking pretty high; next to rock concerts, airport ramp areas with jests and indoor Hockey Games. Why I bet that is enough vibrational energy to power up all the lights in the school including the cafeteria? How so you ask?

Well what if we take all that noise and vibrational energy and collect it and turn it into light? By placing large 4’ X 8’ sandwich sheets with a taunt film on the vibrational side and small copper lined tubes; hundreds of these tubes running perpendicular to the sheets, with magnets inside bouncing back and forth. These magnets will charge a capacitor and be hooked up to an LED lighting system using fiber optics or reflectors, each one hooked up to a .2 to .5 watt light. With hundreds of thousands of lights hooked up in a composite format it will light up the school. I just think that would be so cool?

We would be teaching kids about alternative energy and if they wanted to turn the lights off, maybe they would all shut up at once? Well, we know that wouldn’t happen and that means that indeed, this is a viable and reliable form of energy for lighting? Currently this technology is being used in those little flashlights you see advertised on television that you shake and they light, but you never need batteries. This idea of lighting up the school is using that technology on a larger scale with miniaturized parts making up the guts between the sandwich sheets. Let there be light, thru vibrational energy and there was. Think about it.