Saturday, May 3, 2008

Recycling: All you need for your own energy producer

Pete collects discarded computer hardware and peripherals from a a company or 2.
By stripping them down into their components, it results in several collections of all kinds of resources. This enables him to at negligible cost, build renewable energy devices.

Another obvious advantage to recycle or used recycled parts, is our attempt to slow down our devious effect on our planet, our home. If you have not seen 'An inconvenient truth', then please do so and consider what you can do towards this goal of being able to inhabit this planet for a while longer before the environment turns seriously nasty and uninhabitable.

Consider that extracting resources and producing parts of things requires energy, and it is this very energy that is fast becoming a scarce resource.
The equation is simple: Too many people doing too much and consuming too many things.
Consider how you can lessen your 'carbon footprint'.

So, then, lets have a look at some of these collections. Please note that these are copyright-free images taken by myself and is free for you to use and share.


Numerous size coils for all sorts of purposes.

Assorted rubber


Tin cans.


3.5" Stiffy drives: so many of these things lying around


PC speakers


Motherboards full of capacitors and IC's


Heat sinks for pulling heat from devices that require this for peak performance


CPU cooling fans: another cool way to pull heat from areas.


Gears for many ratio-shifting uses

Power supplies filled with interesting components


Wiring for all one's current-carrying needs.


Plastics of all sorts


An assortment of metals


Copper for a variety of applications



More metal


Stepper motors for converting movement into electricity

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