• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    Why not, though?

    On a serious note: that’s exactly what we’re doing with lighters. At least some of them use piezo elements and not the sparkly wheel thingy to ignite the gas. And it’s real fun to zap yourself with it.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it was a fun journey of learning to look into it. It’s quartz btw. Very piezoelectric and extremely common.

    • wia@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      The conversion rate isn’t great.

      There were talks of using them in sidewalks, but it doesn’t really make much sense really. Piezo almost always only works as energy recovery, which isn’t nothing but you will need the infrastructure which also isn’t nothing.