Powering Your house with The Eldridge Engine Mouse
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So, based on the calculations in this post, on mouse can give a sustained output of 0.22 Horsepower, or 119.9 watts.
Now, pulling from a Forbes article we can set our target power at 1,223 watts. This means 10.2 mousepower to power our house, right? Well, no, because Generator coils aren’t perfectly efficient, some of the mechanical energy is lost. At best we get around 90% conversion, so we actually want twelve mice. Also because the mice need food and play enrichment, we’d want about 48 mice so they can take shifts.
So, a pet mouse consumes about 15-20 grams of food per day, and you can get mouse-food on eBay for 10$ per kilogram, which means keeping the mice fed costs roughly one and a third dollars a day, which makes mice the cheapest, cleanest, and cutest power source ever.
