One big step for man, one small step for energy production. That may be the slogan of this funny pavement, which, installed a month ago in Telford in the northwest of England, arouses the curiosity of 150,000 inhabitants: as we can see in the video above, there are those who open, those who hesitate and those who borrow him intentionally.
Behind this innovation is the British startup Pavegen, created in 2009 and producing connected paving stones that generate energy from the pressure of footsteps and restore data.
Effective?
Each square meter of this cover consists of small slabs mounted on generators. The pressure of the feet on the pavement does the rest. “Movement per centimeter is used to generate kinetic energy and therefore electricity.”, – explains to reporters TF1 Adam Brooks, project manager in the city of Telford and Wrekin. After that, electricity will be redistributed to the citizens through two nearby benches, which will allow them to recharge their phones.
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The question remains: does it work? In reality, each step generates relatively little energy. At each of these, the tile is lowered slightly, causing the electromagnetic generator to rotate and thus produce two to four joules, or four to seven watts of electricity, depending on the person’s weight. But in fact, it takes from three to five joules to fully charge the phone.
This requires several thousand steps, and the foot traffic must be very dense. If the technology does not yet allow the production of energy on a large scale, it is, first of all, about attracting citizens. The company is currently using this innovative solution for high traffic areas such as train stations, airports or shopping streets. Or places very popular for their cobblestones, such as the finish of the marathon in Milan, Abu Dhabi airport, or even the flower show in London.
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