Not exact matches
The bot also uses only 7
microwatts of electricity when perching — it goes through about 2700 times that when it flies, according to a study today
in Science.
The product's developers, engineers and scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
in Singapore, Tsinghua University
in China, and Case Western Reserve University
in the United States, believe the storage capacity by volume (called volumetric energy density) is the highest reported for carbon - based microscale supercapacitors to date: 6.3
microwatt hours per cubic millimeter.
A milliliter's worth of these electrodes could
in principle generate a peak power level of 24.4
microwatts, more than the 10
microwatts typically needed by pacemakers, the researchers added.
In the team's demonstrations, the total power consumption of the backscatter system was 11
microwatts, which could be easily supplied by a tiny coin - cell battery for a couple of years, or powered using tiny solar cells.
According to the Acoustics of Schools: a design guide, the standard sound power output created by speech is 10
microwatts, which amounts to a sound pressure level of 60 dBA at one metre
in front of the speaker.
This then increases to 100
microwatts (70 dBA) when spoken
in a raised voice, and 1,000
microwatts (80 dBA) when shouting.
Am I correct
in calculating that the present rate of growth
in the anthropenic forcing from CO2 from fossil fuel consumption is currently somewaht greater than a milliwatt / year, or about 4
microwatts per day?
According to the research results, the small monocrystalline solar cells (22 % efficiency) used
in the study were able to generate «much more» than the typical 5 to 10
microwatts that typical cardiac pacemakers use, as even the lowest power output measured by the devices was an average of 12
microwatts.