SONEA Converts Sound to Energy

Wailing sirens waking you up at 2am? Now you can roll over and sleep the sleep of the just while SONEA converts those nuisance noises into energy.

A single Sonea unit is 450mm by 450mm by 80mm, weighing in at a whole 7kg. It converts 30 watts of power per decibel of sound it intercepts.

One airplane liftoff makes noise around 140dB. The SONEA could convert this into about 240kW. If we calculate with 500 airplanes per day, the amount of energy would be aproximately 120MW. If this amount of energy is generated for one year, it would be the same amount of energy that is generated by 8000 tons of oil.

Source: ideaconnection.comAdded: 17 September 2009