Energy Harvesting

I'm currently doing a bit of research for my ubicomp essay provisionally entitled Powering Ubiquitous Computing Systems and figured I'd collect together some of the links here. Some of this is pretty interesting reading...

General

• Energy harvesting techniques and applications from SPIE v5837 (is pdf)
  
• Energy harvesting on Wiki
• Energy harvesting chips on EE Times Asia
• Energy harvesting and autonomy on Embedded.com (or as pdf)
  
• A Canadian defense report on advanced power sources (is pdf)
  

Piezoelectricity

• Piezoelectricity on Wiki
• Japan's commuter-generated electricity on the Tokyomango blog
• Japan's commuter-generated electricity on TreeHugger.com
• Japan's commuter-generated electricity on Wired.com
• Japan's commuter-generated electricity on Real Tech News
• Harnessing vibration energy in London on TreeHugger.com
  
• Harnessing vibration energy in London on The Discovery Channel
• MIT students harnessing vibration energy on Gizmodo.com
  
• Energy generating dance floors on Springwise.com
• Residential Piezoelectric Energy Sources within the Duke Smart Home Program
• Piezoelectricity used in a backpack on Gizmodo.com (unlike this backpack which generates electromagnetic energy)

Other Energy Sources

• Micro windmills on Gizmodo.com
  

Almost related is this New York Times article on the 'trend' towards energy conservation in everyday life.