Sound to energy generator

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 in the UK, is developing a bio-mass burning cooking stove which also converts heat into acoustic energy and then into electricity, all in one unit.

.....are working on the generator’s Linear Alternator — the part which turns the sound energy into electricity. The system uses special configurations of magnets which generate electrical energy from sound.....[click for link]