Adam Magazine on the Crazy Years

I guess if one has to pray, one might as well make it useful.

Buddhist prayer wheels can be found outside the gates of monasteries in a number of Asian nations, most famously in Tibet. If you think about it, countless people spinning countless prayer wheels for over 1,500 years would have generated an incredible amount of electrical energy had the prayer wheels been crafted to produce and capture it.

Designer Taikkun Li thought about the possibilities and is moving to put those thoughts into action with his Prayer Wheel Energy Generator.

via Prayer Wheel Energy Generator Harnesses the Power of Religion.

Maybe we can use the back-and-forth motion of Jewish daily prayers to reduce electricity costs at synagogues.