Can you useKinetic Energy to light a light bulb?

Question

Can you useKinetic Energy to light a light bulb?

Answer 1

yes

by turning kinetic energy into electricity

Answer 2

Okay, as much as I hate to do this, it's too cool to leave out.  I guess you want to know if you can make a light bulb light up by mind power, right?  Answer: no.  But if you have friends of the woo-woo/ga-ga crowd who believe in ghosts and psychics and such, you can give them something to make their hair stand on end and get them all breathless with joyous hysteria.

   Under the right conditions, you can secretly get yourself charged, like with a wool blanket on a cold dry night, and touch a fluorescent light bulb.  Little auroras of light will flash through it.  Then you have to go recharge.  This would have been great in the old days of seances, but they didn't have fluorescent bulbs to trick people with in the heyday of spiritualism.

   So get your most goo-goo-ish buddies together for a Ouija party or something and try it.  You will be the talk of the party and they will think they have seen a miracle.  This, like all cons, takes practice, though.

Answer 3

i can't, but, i can use a light switch to allow  electrons to flow through a wire to a resistive element and, PRESTO, light! aint that amazing?

Answer 4

yes...

You can store up kinetic energy in a flywheel and then use the flywheel to drive a generator... then the electric power from the generator lights the bulb.

Answer 5

Electricity is a form of energy, but not an energy source, kinetic energy, (or the energy of motion ) can be used to generate electricity.Hydro-electric plants and wind-mills are good examples of kinetic energy sources,so the answer would be yes,you can light a light bulb using this method

Answer 6

If you did, it wouldn't be kinetic energy anymore, it would be thermal energy!  But yes, you could use what was originally kinetic energy.

Answer 7

Heat is kinetic energy as well.

Answer 8

What KBW3 says reminded me of a funny story my Dad used to tell about his Navy days.  They were in dry dock one evening and he was "calibrating" the radar.  They saw one of the sailors walking across the gangway to the ship with an arm load of flourescent lightbulbs... One of his buddies said, "Watch this" and turned the radar on the guy and pulsed him as he was walking across the gangway (they were at a safe distance)... All the lightbulbs in his arm lit up at once (pretty far out thing to see at night time)....   Scared the you-know-what out of him...   My dad and his buddies spent the next three hours sweeping up broken glass out of the bottom of the dry dock...