Turnstile Power

Paul Raven @ 01-08-2006

The East Japan Railway Company wants to cut its electric bill, by using people’s passage through the ticket gates to generate electricity - which has the added bonus of providing an easy method for them to measure the traffic passing through the turnstiles. They should possibly team up with that UK architect who said she wants to power tube stations with waste kinetic energy from human footsteps.

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