Comments on: One in four Japanese looking at battery-powered fans http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/07/10/one-in-four-japanese-looking-at-battery-powered-fans/ From kimono to keitai; research Japanese facts and figures through translated opinion polls and surveys. Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: DerekNobuyuki Wallace http://whatjapanthinks.com/2011/07/10/one-in-four-japanese-looking-at-battery-powered-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-244848 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:59:37 +0000 http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=4177#comment-244848 What kind of batteries would one need to power a large free standing fan? D-cell batteries? Motorcycle batteries?
I don’t really see how battery powered fans would be ecologically beneficial or support setsuden efforts; I’m sure a lot of energy, waste, strip mining in some cases, etc go into producing those batteries.
Perhaps, super small low output solar powered fans made from cheap plastics put very close to one’s head could make one feel like they are being cooled instead.

Also, I’m surprised that the number of survey participants that made setsuden efforts dropped off so much. But, since it appears that around 60% of participants even tried in the first place in march after the quakes (when the government was urging people and the city became really dark and everything was shut down, but before the setsuden marketing campaigns) that either people don’t care that much or the survey contained a lot of people who are not affected by setsuden.

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