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Japanese researchers have generated electricity from the stream of people passing through ticket gates at train stations. Pink Tentacle has more details:
The East Japan Railway Company (JR-East), as part of research aimed at developing more environmentally friendly train stations, is testing an experimental system that produces electricity as people pass through ticket gates. JR claims that this sort of human-powered electricity generation system may provide a portion of the electricity consumed at train stations in the future.
August 1st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
That is brilliant! Couldn’t a system like that work on roads so that the weight of cars passing over it generated electricity?
August 1st, 2006 at 7:17 pm
When I was in school I asked my dad why they didn’t collect energy from people going in and out of city buildings through the entry and exit doors… he said because the amount of energy it would generate would be negligible. We’re going to have a tough word
August 2nd, 2006 at 12:18 am
One Scary, One Interesting…….
First, scary story in the NY Times yesterday (subscription possibly required - and worth it!) about men in the prime of their lives not working, and not looking for work. About 13 percent of American men between the age of…