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Cooking With Sound

sciencedaily.com — A low-cost generator with the potential to transform lives in the world’s poorest communities is now being tested across the UK and in Nepal. The Score project, led by The University of Nottingham, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.

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  • feomatteo88, on 07/20/2009, -1/+25Sounds delicious
  • jimmypopjr, on 07/20/2009, -0/+9So what do you do if your steak is undercooked? Turn up the bass or the treble?
  • ddgromit, on 07/20/2009, -0/+7I RTFA and still don't understand what this thing does.
  • painting, on 07/20/2009, -0/+6i also cook with sound, I just yell, "bitch, make me some dinner".
  • darzeecompany, on 07/20/2009, -1/+6Show us this weirding way.
  • RealmDown, on 07/20/2009, -2/+6I hear you
  • k3rfuffl3, on 07/20/2009, -2/+6Interesting, more specifically stupid, how you assume bio-mass means wood when it could mean anything that burns like dung:

    From the article: "could be wood, dung or any other locally-available biomass material."

    Pick a different user name.
  • sethm13, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3"Honey, are you in the kitchen??? It sounds like the food is burning!"
  • evildemonic, on 07/20/2009, -1/+4And a "linear alternator" is just a microphone. boo
  • borez, on 07/20/2009, -1/+4Nah mate, steak is best at around 125htz with 4k for the gravy.
  • shavedlummox, on 07/20/2009, -0/+3Um, are you aware that man has developed a technology that is nearly 100% efficient and is already in most homes. The electric element. That's right, that coil is already almost 100% efficient, with only the slightest loss in the creation of a little light when it glows. How they are getting more efficient by transforming to one energy source, to another sounds like BS. Transforming one energy to anther is always 'lossy'.
  • muleskinner, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2I think what we want is to keep millions of children from needlessly suffering and dying from malnutrition and starvation.
  • hiPpymIck, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2heres a diagram
    i think it uses several different technologies together - seems quite an inventive combination

    http://www.score.uk.com/research/Scorepics/Forms/D ...
  • highdef, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2"According to the Department of Energy, the efficiency of energy transfer for an induction cooktop is 90%, versus 71% for a smooth-top non-induction electrical unit, for an approximate 20% savings in energy for the same amount of heat transfer."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_cooker


    Last I checked 71% is a lot different than almost 100%

    I wonder if this stove is similar to a thermoacoustic freezer?
  • Verytastycheese, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2Sure, and its great if you ALREADY HAVE access to electricity...

    Try powering that element with dung
  • inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Wow if i could steal a few KWH every time a train went by i would forgive them shunting at 4AM
  • tedc, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1So how much electrical power does it put out? I couldn't find that in the article.
  • TheMachine1, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1http://www.score.uk.com/
    Website has some pictures.
  • DarkH3lmet, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1If your interested google Thermoacoustic refrigeration for more info on this
  • hiPpymIck, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1the acoustic chiller part was developed in US by Ben and Jerrys in 04

    SCORE = Stove for COoking Refrigeration and Electricity

    http://live.psu.edu/story/6482


  • boozedrinker, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR WHAT BACON SOUNDS LIKE.....
  • muleskinner, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2I don't think you know what your talking about.
  • inactive, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1Thanks i forgot about that.
  • kidego365, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!
  • muleskinner, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1So then your solution is to let the children starve instead of trying to help? I'm sure thats a popular opinion.....
  • inactive, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1You can have your Chicken in C #
  • lordspidey, on 07/23/2009, -0/+1You seem to have a problem with people who don't take the internet for serious business...
  • rxbudian, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1"...which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity."
    So we can shove this in front of yelling couples and get some use out of it.
    On a serious side, we can technically use the sound to electricity on a constant noise maker like a waterfall and generate electricity constantly.
  • mtgarvey853, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Cookin Soul Volume 1
  • leszek, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1I RTFA and I RTFD and still don't understand how it works.
  • vertinox, on 07/20/2009, -1/+2Technically you're bio-mass too.
  • inactive, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1Mine did once, not what I was expecting. Technicolor dog yawn on the rug.
  • inactive, on 07/21/2009, -0/+1I add a little delay with some compression for that. A great after taste with some nice harmonics.
  • Claverhouse, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1And those millions kept alive exponentially multiply their numbers; with the millions and millions added, the world soon relives the problem of insufficient resources that leads to mass malnutrition and starvation...
  • Ebacherville, on 07/20/2009, -0/+1not totally true, but close, but the problem isn't using the power, (were really good at that) its generating it efficiently and cheaply.. this is cool , but is also not efficient, and totally skips the fact that the sun rains down enough power to power the eearth for a year in one 8 hour day..

    energy is never lost it just changes forms.. as in your example light it the unused form of energy in the conversion and heat is the used version.. there are some other losses you need to consider, besides light and heat.. transmission losses etc.. ideally for the most efficiency we would all have a little power plants in our home making our power, Solar is by far myfavorite , even though it only harness a few percent of whats raining down on it.. its still the cleanest form of energy we can come up with at this point. Wind is good too, but solar is something that's viable everywhere on the face of the earth.
  • Rexxy, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1and the bitch brings you some of her dog food?
  • FredFredrickson, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1Thanks for sounding off on this.
  • hasslinthehoff, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1Maybe they can somehow combine it with karaoke and have the best damn cooking party ever.
  • rbreece, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1Does it sound like this?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7GGkKpBR-g
  • Winnipeg1, on 07/20/2009, -0/+0Of course, the trick is in playing music from bands that are kitchen/cooking related: Meatloaf, Cream, Bread, Pearl Jam, Fishbone, The Sugarcubes, The Spoons, The Platters, etc. etc.
  • shutaro, on 07/20/2009, -3/+3OM NOM NOM NOM!!!
  • damnshoes, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1If I was made out of chocolate I would eat myself.
  • spilo101, on 07/20/2009, -1/+1Great, soon we'll be able to yell at or food when it's not ready
  • serracruz, on 07/21/2009, -0/+0that's one part of the "solution" others include war, pollution, disease, and genocide...we can allow developing nations to progress towards a state similar to our own population-resource stability (if you could call it that we use more resources than the rest of the world and we are far fewer, so it would be even more effective to get rid of us first, not to worry we are in love with our own destructive impulses) but should the transformation and production of resources into a usable state reach a peak before equilibrium we are *****
  • 4AntiStupid, on 07/20/2009, -3/+3Congratulation...Made my ignore list with the personal attack. Why are there so many people that can't talk intelligently about a scientific subject without diving into irrationality?
  • 4AntiStupid, on 07/20/2009, -7/+6Interesting how "wood" has now become "bio-mass". I guess a wood burning stove wouldn't get a lot of interest.
  • borez, on 07/20/2009, -3/+2I once tried to fry egg and bacon on the the top of a stack of Crown Macro-Tech 5002 amplifiers after they had been running for 14 hours at a rave in Scotland powering an 80K Turbosound rig in the 90's, it worked... but the food crept into the top amp through the vents and blew the ***** thing up.

    I guess that was cooking with sound.
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