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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'm Christopher Intagliata.
When you walk with a backpack, you know how the stuff inside sways from side to side? Now scientists have figured out how to tap into that motion to generate electricity.
Here's how it works. Picture a pendulum mounted to a backpack frame and stabilized with springs on either side. The pack's weight is attached to the pendulum, so the pendulum swings side to side as you walk. Gears then use that swinging motion to drive a generator, and the generator spits out electrical current to charge a battery.

Volunteers carried the pack while walking on a treadmill and wore masks to measure the flow of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Walking with the slightly swaying 20-pound load, the device did not significantly affect the volunteers' metabolic rate compared to when they carried the same weight fixed in place. In fact, the energy-harvesting pack reduced the forces of acceleration they'd feel in a regular pack, which might mean greater comfort for a long hike. And the device did produce a steady trickle of electricity—the operative word being trickle.
Because if you up the load to 45 pounds, the passive motion of the pack could fully charge a Samsung Galaxy S10 smartphone only after 12 hours on the trail. The details are in the journal Royal Society Open Science.
But here's the rucksack rub: the energy-harvesting device currently weighs five pounds. The researchers say that's about four pounds too many to be a smart alternative to batteries. So they hope that more research lets them lighten the load, to ensure the pack charges you up without weighing you down.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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当你背着背包走路时，你知道包里的东西是如何左右摇晃的吗？现在科学家已经知道如何利用这种运动来发电RHw.&IF+2g2U^V8W。
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谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学sF=5*ZVFoLJl)K0。我是克里斯托弗·因塔利亚塔zr07nDuZe*!&A_。

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重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. from side to side 左右,来回(移动)；
She was shaking her head from side to side.
她摇头晃脑#xp*l6J!taqP1[。
2. compared to 与…相比；和…比起来；
Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have greater opportunities to have a good time.
比起上几辈人，我们有更多机会享受生活wq7Fxu,@0dP[.7#t)h。
3. charge up 给(电池)充电；
There was nothing in the brochure about having to drive the car every day to charge up the battery.
手册里只字没提这车要天天开，以给电池充电WCZlj0wKYxBC#!Jpe。
4. weigh down 使负荷太重；压得…行动不便；
He took off his shoes. If they had to swim, he didn't want anything weighing him down.
他脱下了鞋o|4BM-BSX^H-FkxkGRt+。如果他们不得不游泳的话，他不想让任何东西成为负担8qSKaA0zP4XM。