Imagine helping to create energy just by walking around? Ok, how about dancing? These MIT students are proposing a way of harnessing energy from crowds of people! The energy is converted from the small downward motion created by a person stepping on a tile with a generator inside. They built a stool that powers small LED lights as an example.
Link to the article on Inhabitat.com
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1 mikekarnj // Aug 21, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Dude, you should check out this nightclub that gets all its energy from people dancing on the dancefloor. Tight.
http://www.springwise.com/eco_sustainability/hot_nightclub_minus_global_war/
2 Macgregor Harp // Aug 22, 2007 at 7:46 am
No way! I was just at Off Corso in Rotterdam like 3 months ago!!!!
Anyway, who wants to ask Bloomburg to install these things underneath Times Square???
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