British company Pavegen has developed a new paving tile that captures the energy of footsteps and turns it into electricity.
On a small scale, one day’s worth of foot traffic over a few tiles could power one street light overnight. In another recent field test at a music festival, dancers stomping on a dance floor with Pavegen tiles generated enough energy to recharge their mobile phones.
The company’s first big field test will come this summer at the London Olympics. Pavegen will be installing its system just outside the Westfield Stratford Shopping Center, one of Europe’s biggest and busiest urban shopping malls. The tiles will be placed on one of the main pedestrian thoroughfares leading into nearby London Olympic Park. Depending on the foot traffic, the company hopes its tiles might be able to power the mall’s entire lighting system. More.
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WHAAAA. SO COOL.
So cool. We need more things like this.
Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
"You live many lives in a lifetime."
Turning common belief on its head.
This Election Season Sucks
I am really into politics. I like to follow the news about what is going on with our government, the policies the the President wants to implement, the bills Congress wants to pass, and the decisions that the Supreme Court announces. But this election is just awful for me because nobody is talking about anything I care about.
The Republican candidates are flaunting their social conservatism to rally the Republican base, which is something that really bothers me. The problem I have with social conservatism is not that people believe gay marriage is wrong, or abortion should be banned; it’s that I don’t believe its any of the government’s business. A lot of social conservatism in politics seems like the forcing of a one person’s morals and values onto society as a whole. I hate that. I feel like if the issue does not harm you in anyway, then you should have no say in the matter. Gay marriage won’t harm the institution of marriage; we already have a sky high divorce rate, plus Newt Gingrich doesn’t a lot of weight on the issue considering his long lasting affairs and multiple divorces and marriages. I don’t believe that marriage is about a man and a woman. I think its about being in love, regardless of who’s in love. (Yes, I’m liberal as fuck, but that doesn’t mean I like the Democrats either. I’m registered as an independent.)
I just wish that the candidates would talk about something more substantial. We have so much that we should be worrying about right now besides what people do with their private lives. We have issues of privacy/censorship on the Internet, global warming and climate change, a massive debt, a still recovering economy and shitty job markets, record income/wealth inequality, and corruption/bribery in politics. Yet, barely any of these gets mentioned. Something really needs to change.
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