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Japanese trials: Generating electricity from footfalls
Turning treadmills and revolving doors into power sources is a neat, if somewhat obvious, idea; a less intuitive concept is to reap power from a flat floor, which was recently tested by NEDO, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization in Japan.
NEDO placed specially designed tiles called hatsudenyuka (electricity-generating floors) at a high-traffic spot outside of Tokyo's Shibuya station, harnessing energy with every salaryman and schoolgirl's footfall, in a recent test run. The gains of the study are now being analyzed; should it prove to be efficient enough, we will hopefully see more of these in future.
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