ANIMALS AS A DIRECT SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY: A NEW HYPOTHESIS

Abstract

Animals can act both as indirect and direct source of electricity. Consumption of Biogas as a fuel for power generation is an example of indirect source. Use of draught (Traction) power of animals for same purpose is the direct application. Since the invention of automobile vehicles, the horses and cattle were the main engines of transporting carts. Animals were also utilized for many other mechanical jobs as extraction of water from wells, Extraction of oils from seeds, ploughing, leveling, threshing etc. The new hypothesis is based upon the modification of older mechanism of extraction of water from the well. Only one animal can pull out tons of water from a well in a day. Hypothesis is that ―If an animal can pull huge quantity of water from a distance of 100 feet underground, it can be tried for pushing the water 100 feet above the ground with traction power of one animal or two‖. To achieve this objective, the mechanism of old style well can be modified with two wheels, one at the surface of the earth being moved by the movement (Kinetic Energy) of the animal/ animals, second wheel at a height of 100 feet above the previous wheel. The chain of buckets will move with the movement of lower wheel, It will run over both the wheels and go down toward inside the well by taking U turn over the second wheel, the second wheel will move through upward movement of the chain of buckets. The buckets will pour the water in to a tank being 100 feet above the ground. The water collected in the tank will gain Potential Energy that can be converted in to Kinetic energy of turbines for production of electricity.